first name
LOUISE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 96,368 people named Louise, 76.2% reported their origin as White, 15.1% as Black and 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino. 98.8% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Louise peaked in 1920, when 9,226 babies got the name.
At least 338,662 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Louise by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1910s, when it ranked #36. The largest share of babies named Louise, 46.8%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Louise is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Louise has been most common in South Carolina (2.7×), Mississippi (2.2×), and Alabama (2.2×), and least common in Nevada (0.12×).
285,595 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Louise
Spelled almost the same
4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Louise, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Louise ranks #31,342 of 156,621, with 792 people. See Louise as a last name
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