# Louisa (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/louisa/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /luːˈiːzə/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 21,937 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 21,932 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 4,955, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 197 | 1,221 |
| 2012 | 222 | 1,119 |
| 2013 | 245 | 1,020 |
| 2014 | 281 | 955 |
| 2015 | 303 | 907 |
| 2016 | 347 | 828 |
| 2017 | 373 | 752 |
| 2018 | 386 | 731 |
| 2019 | 422 | 688 |
| 2020 | 383 | 725 |
| 2021 | 424 | 687 |
| 2022 | 340 | 825 |
| 2023 | 346 | 808 |
| 2024 | 385 | 733 |
| 2025 | 407 | 697 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 5 | 4,697 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 146 | 328 |
| 2012 | 176 | 280 |
| 2013 | 154 | 304 |
| 2014 | 158 | 298 |
| 2015 | 140 | 334 |
| 2016 | 174 | 289 |
| 2017 | 143 | 333 |
| 2018 | 130 | 358 |
| 2019 | 104 | 402 |
| 2020 | 76 | 525 |
| 2021 | 66 | 588 |
| 2022 | 67 | 576 |
| 2023 | 49 | 734 |
| 2024 | 50 | 751 |
| 2025 | 54 | 684 |

## People named Louisa

- Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (1832–1888)
- Louisa Adams, First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829
- Louisa Necib Cadamuro, French footballer
- Louisa Hanoune, Algerian politician
- Louisa Lawson, Australian poet, writer, publisher, suffragist, and feminist (1848–1920)
- Louisa Maria Stuart, British princess (1692-1712)
- Louisa Garrett Anderson, British physician and feminist (1873–1943)
- Louisa Atkinson, Anglo-Australian writer, illustrator and botanical collector (1834-1872)
- Louisa Lytton, British actress
- Louisa Johnson, English singer (born 1998)
- Louisa Anne Meredith, British-Australian writer and illustrator (1812–1895)
- Louisa Jacobson, American actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.