Louise
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Feminine form of Louis; likely spread to Ireland from England. Irish Labhaoise suggests Louisa was an early form in Ireland
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/luːiːz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Louise is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Australia it is the 46th most common given name.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 521(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 614
- AUAustralia≈1 in 619
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #343 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 551 (measured from records)
- 1 in 181 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Feminine form of Louis, from hlod ‘glory’ + vig ‘battle’; used in European naming.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Louise is read(measured from records)
Louise is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English77%
Feminine form of Louis; likely spread to Ireland from England. Irish Labhaoise suggests Louisa was an early form in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
- French9.6%
Feminine form of Louis, from hlod ‘glory’ + vig ‘battle’; used in European naming.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
Feminine form of Louis, from Germanic Hludwig, 'famous battle'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Germanic feminine form meaning « glorious fighter ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
from the personal name Louise, feminine form of Louis.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Louise | 63 |
| GB United Kingdom | #52 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 521 | — | Louise | 357 |
| US United States | #179 | 96,368 | 1 in 3.5K | 95K | Louise | 551 |
| FR France | — | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 829 | 285K | — | 18 |
| SE Sweden | — | 56,304 | 1 in 181 | 56K | Louise | 141 |
| AU Australia | #46 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 619 | 84 | Louise | 293 |
| DK Denmark | — | 23,824 | 1 in 246 | 24K | — | 9 |
| IE Ireland | #66 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 614 | — | Louise | 169 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
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.
French feminine form of jLouis, introduced to England in the 17th century. Short form: Lou.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Jeanne Calmentb. 1875FRnot in their usual nameFrench supercentenarian, person with the longest confirmed lifespan (1875–1997)
- Mary Pickfordb. 1892CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress and producer (1892–1979)
- Rachel Carsonb. 1907USnot in their usual nameAmerican marine biologist and conservationist (1907–1964)
- Juliana of the Netherlandsb. 1909NLnot in their usual nameQueen of the Netherlands from 1948 to 1980 (1909-2004)
- Louise Bourgeoisb. 1911USFrench-American artist (1911-2010)
- Aretha Franklinb. 1942USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942–2018)
- Quentin Bryceb. 1942AUnot in their usual name25th Governor-General of Australia
- Anne, Princess Royalb. 1950GBnot in their usual namedaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- Madonnab. 1958USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer (born 1958)
- Louise Brealeyb. 1979GBBritish actress
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)
Attested in 129 sources across 70 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 285K | #1 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 95K | #566 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 56K | #65 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 24K | #13 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 15K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #566 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 579 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2006 | 155 | #49 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 1995 | 84 | #100 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 1996 | 48 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Where does the name Louise come from?
- Feminine form of Louis, from hlod ‘glory’ + vig ‘battle’; used in European naming. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- Is Louise a male or female name?
- Louise is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Louise mean?
- In English, Feminine form of Louis; likely spread to Ireland from England. Irish Labhaoise suggests Louisa was an early form in Ireland.
- What are other forms of the name Louise?
- In the etymology graph, Luisa, Gina and Luiza are forms of the same name in other languages; Lula, Luella and Louella are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Louise?
- A machine transcription gives /luːiːz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Louise have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 million people named Louise in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled louise.
- Where is Louise most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Louise is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 181 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Louise?
- In the United States, the national register counted 96,368 people named Louise in 2020, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Louise compared with other names?
- In Australia, Louise is the 46th most common given name of 205,854 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Louise?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/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, “Louise” — the 46th most common given name in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.