Marie-Louise
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name; made popular by 18th century royalty
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: INSEE, 2024
/ma.ʁi.lwiz/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Marie-Louise is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 3K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 3.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a female given name; made popular by 18th century royalty
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Marie-Louise counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #589 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 49K | Marie-Louise | 193 |
| SE Sweden | #251 | 9,624 | 1 in 1.1K | 9.6K | Marie-Louise | 69 |
| BE Belgium | #495 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 5 | Marie-Louise | 40 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,447 | 1 in 7.1K | 2.3K | Marie-Louise | 41 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 1 | Marie-Louise | 91 |
| CH Switzerland | #822 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Marie-Louise | 35 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Marie-Louise is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Une marie-louise est une moulure cartonnée, biseautée ou à gorge, fixée sur le bord intérieur d’un cadre. Le rapport avec le prénom n’a pas été établi. Le s du pluriel se met aux deux prénoms. Pour des raisons obscures (élégance du prénom pris par antiphrase, allusion à l’impératrice Marie-Louise ?), une marie-louise est un des mots argotiques qui désignent le pet.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Princess Louise of Franceb. 1728FRnot in their usual nameFrench princess
- Marie Thérèse of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballeb. 1749FRnot in their usual nameFrench princess (1749-1792)
- Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kasselb. 1814DKnot in their usual name(1814-1895)
- Marie-Louise Meilleurb. 1880CAnot in their usual nameCanadian supercentenarian (1880–1998)
- Princess Marie-Louise d’Orléansb. 1896FRnot in their usual nameFrench princess (1896–1973)
- Maryse Bastiéb. 1898FRnot in their usual nameFrench aviator (1898-1952)
- Marie-Louise von Franzb. 1915CHnot in their usual nameSwiss psychologist and scholar (1915-1998)
- Chantal Thomasb. 1945FRnot in their usual nameFrench writer
- Marie-Louise Coleiro Precab. 1958MTnot in their usual nameMaltese politician
- Marie-Louise Etab. 1991DEnot in their usual nameGerman association football player and manager
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)37 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 49K | #2,171 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9.6K | #409 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 6K | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2.3K | #738 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1.4K | #1,746 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 128 | #3,815 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 5 | #1,326 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2023 | 1 | #1 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2013 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2025 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marie-Louise mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name; made popular by 18th century royalty Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Marie-Louise a male or female name?
- Marie-Louise is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024), Netherlands (Meertens NVB), Finland (DVV) and Norway (SSB), among others.
- What are other forms of the name Marie-Louise?
- In the etymology graph, Louise, Malou and Milou are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Marie-Louise?
- It depends on the language: in French /ma.ʁi.lwiz/ (Wiktionary); in Swedish /mariːluʉise/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Marie-Louise have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Marie-Louise in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marie-louise.
- Where is Marie-Louise most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marie-Louise is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marie-Louise?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 9,624 people named Marie-Louise, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Marie-Louise compared with other names?
- In France, Marie-Louise is the 589th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Marie-Louise?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marie-louiseThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marie-Louise” — the 589th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.