Luisa

Where Luisa comes from

Luisa hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1613
    Luisa de Guzmán born
    Duchess of Braganza; Queen consort of Portugal
  2. 1882
    Debut at its peak, #678
    #678 among girls with 8 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  3. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1996
    Luisa Neubauer born
    German climate activist
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Luisa Neubauer · German climate activist, born 1996
  • Luisa de Guzmán · Duchess of Braganza; Queen consort of Portugal, 1613–1666
  • Luisa Stefani · Brazilian tennis player, born 1997
  • Luisa Cuesta · Uruguayan human rights activist, 1925–2018
  • Luisa Valenzuela · Argentine writer, born 1938

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.