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Louise

Girls' name · Early 20th-century revival perennial

Living in the US
~83,800 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#514 among girls
Births in 2025
579 338,662 since 1880
Typical age
75 years, median

Louise popularity over time

Louise rank by birth year, 1880–2025Louise ranked #36 in 1880 and #514 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #17, in 1912.#100#1,000#514best #17 in 191218901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

Louise was used most in 1920, when 9,226 babies were given the name. It appears in the very first year SSA covers, 1880. Across the record, 69 years put Louise in the top 100.

As of 2025 the name sits at #514, with 579 births that year. Compared with 2015, births are up 2.4×. It climbed 26 places against the previous year.

Babies named Louise per yearPeaks at 9,226 births in 1920.9,226 in 1920018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Louise?

Roughly 83,800 Louises are alive in the US right now. SSA has recorded 338,662 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Louise?

Median age among living Louises: 75. The 1940s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Louise a early 20th-century revival perennial name.

Your Louise

Ages of living people named LouiseHalf of living Louises are older than 75 and half younger.median 75020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Louise is most common

Relative to births, District of Columbia carries 4.3× the national share of Louises. Minnesota, Massachusetts and Oregon follow.

Where Louise is used more than average5 states use the name Louise more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: 3.1× the national rateMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: 2.2× the national rateORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: 2.1× the national rateMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: 2.5× the national rateMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: 4.3× the national rateDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Louise is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
District of Columbia 35 4.3×
Minnesota 192 3.1×
Massachusetts 170 2.5×
Oregon 84 2.2×
Missouri 146 2.1×

Louise in England and Wales

In England and Wales, Louise ranked #816 in 2025 on 44 births. That is 37% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Louise comes from

From French Louise, the feminine form of Louis.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Louise

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Louise Glück U.S. poet and Nobel laureate 1943–2023 102
Louise Fletcher American actress 1934–2022 68
Louise Michel French author and anarchist 1830–1905 65
Louise Bourgeois French-American artist 1911–2010 59
Louise Labé French poet of the Renaissance, born in Lyon 1524–1566 51
Louise Brooks American actress 1906–1985 47
Louise Brown first in-vitro baby 1978 42
Louise Mountbatten Queen consort of Sweden 1889–1965 41
Photo credits (7)

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Louise

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

Same feel, less common

The same matches, limited to names given at most half as often as Louise was in 2025.

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