Louise

Where Louise comes from

From French Louise, the feminine form of Louis.
— Wiktionary's entry for Louise
  • French
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #36 among girls — 635 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1914
    Peak, #17
    6,648 babies named Louise — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1934
    Louise Fletcher born
    American actress
  4. 1943
    Louise Glück born
    U.S. poet and Nobel laureate
  5. 1950
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #109.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French.
Namesakes
  • Louise Glück · U.S. poet and Nobel laureate, 1943–2023
  • Louise Fletcher · American actress, 1934–2022
  • Louise Michel · French author and anarchist, 1830–1905
  • Louise Bourgeois · French-American artist, 1911–2010
  • Louise Labé · French poet of the Renaissance, born in Lyon, 1524–1566

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.