girls:
581 births since 1909
#5135 (10th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1990
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
586 births since 1909
#7153 (8th percentile)
The name Luise is the #7,153 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 586 recorded births since 1909. This represents the 7.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,135 (10.1% percentile) for all time with 581 births since 1909. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1990.
Luise first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1909 (1909 for girls and 1990 for boys). Birth data for Luise is available in 57 out of the 114 years between 1909 and 2022 (56 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Luise has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Luise reached its peak popularity in 1937, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #560) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1937, with 25 births per million (ranked 3.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Luise reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #769) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Luise".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Luise", 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 5 different pronunciations for the name Luise. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 33.3% confident that Luise is pronounced as lue-EE-zuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LUE-ees, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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