# Luisa (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/luisa/  
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 | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 14,405 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 33 / 14,372 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,051, 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 | 224 | 1,101 |
| 2012 | 180 | 1,312 |
| 2013 | 205 | 1,175 |
| 2014 | 181 | 1,311 |
| 2015 | 224 | 1,134 |
| 2016 | 211 | 1,186 |
| 2017 | 228 | 1,105 |
| 2018 | 222 | 1,110 |
| 2019 | 262 | 985 |
| 2020 | 256 | 997 |
| 2021 | 262 | 988 |
| 2022 | 319 | 873 |
| 2023 | 276 | 951 |
| 2024 | 313 | 866 |
| 2025 | 294 | 903 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 6 | 4,721 |
| 1973 | 6 | 4,862 |
| 1983 | 5 | 6,902 |
| 1988 | 8 | 5,520 |
| 1990 | 8 | 6,189 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 37 | 959 |
| 2012 | 36 | 998 |
| 2013 | 38 | 959 |
| 2014 | 43 | 877 |
| 2015 | 41 | 891 |
| 2016 | 53 | 744 |
| 2017 | 31 | 1,105 |
| 2018 | 41 | 902 |
| 2019 | 36 | 980 |
| 2020 | 25 | 1,267 |
| 2021 | 45 | 801 |
| 2022 | 35 | 982 |
| 2023 | 32 | 1,056 |
| 2024 | 27 | 1,230 |
| 2025 | 19 | 1,584 |

## People named Luisa

- Luisa Neubauer, German climate activist
- Luisa de Guzmán, Duchess of Braganza; Queen consort of Portugal (1613-1666)
- Luisa Stefani, Brazilian tennis player
- Luisa Valenzuela, Argentine writer
- Maria Luisa Berti, Captain Regent of San Marino
- Luisa Rõivas, Estonian singer (born 1987)
- Maria Luísa Mendonça, Brazilian actress
- Luisa D'Oliveira, Canadian actress (born 1986)
- Luisa Eugenia Navas, Chilean botanist (1920–2020)
- Luisa Kiala, Angolan handball player
- Luisa Tomas, Angolan basketball player (born 1983)
- Princess Luisa Maria of Belgium, Belgian and Austro-Este Imperial and Royal

## 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.