girls:
335.3k births since 1880
#111 (98th percentile)
boys:
2.2k births since 1881
#2686 (41st percentile)
overall:
337.5k births since 1880
#217 (97th percentile)
The name Louise is the #217 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 337,512 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #111 (98.1% percentile) for all time with 335,316 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #2,686 (41.4% percentile) for all time with 2,196 births since 1881.
Louise has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1881 for boys).
The name Louise has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Louise reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 97.1% percentile (ranked #18) with 7,578 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 8,720 births per million (ranked 96.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Louise ranks #501 for girls (47.1% percentile) with 292 births per million, which is 3.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Louise reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 10.2% percentile (ranked #477) with 53 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 139 births per million (ranked 8.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Louise".
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 "Louise", 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 6 different pronunciations for the name Louise. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.9% confident that Louise is pronounced as lue-EEZ, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LUE-eez, at 34.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Louise? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Louise. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Louise, please vote using the thumbs up button.
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 UW0 IY1 Z) 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.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker