girls:
2.3k births since 1880
#3607 (37th percentile)
boys:
30k births since 1880
#668 (85th percentile)
overall:
32.3k births since 1880
#1414 (82nd percentile)
The name Louie is the #1,414 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 32,302 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 81.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #668 (85.4% percentile) for all time with 30,008 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,607 (36.9% percentile) for all time with 2,294 births since 1880.
Louie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Louie has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Louie reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 56.2% percentile (ranked #235) with 435 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 502 births per million (ranked 23.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2005, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Louie ranks #518 for boys (43.2% percentile) with 251 births per million, which is 50.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Louie reached its peak popularity in 1881, achieving the 10.6% percentile (ranked #194) with 283 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 283 births per million (ranked 10.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Louie ranks #931 for girls (1.7% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 4.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Louie".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Louis. View all variations of Louis.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Louie", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 18 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Louis" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Louis..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Louie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.7% confident that Louie is pronounced as LUE-ee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is lue-EE, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L UW1 IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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