# Luise (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/luise/  
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 | 586 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 581 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 9, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 7 | 5,010 |
| 1957 | 8 | 4,754 |
| 1958 | 5 | 6,637 |
| 1959 | 11 | 3,943 |
| 1961 | 15 | 3,413 |
| 1963 | 8 | 5,122 |
| 1964 | 7 | 5,795 |
| 1966 | 8 | 5,101 |
| 1968 | 5 | 7,681 |
| 1972 | 5 | 9,041 |
| 2008 | 5 | 19,322 |
| 2011 | 6 | 15,995 |
| 2016 | 5 | 17,811 |
| 2020 | 5 | 16,566 |
| 2022 | 5 | 16,754 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 5 | 8,972 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 3,795 |
| 1997 | 3 | 3,824 |
| 2010 | 3 | 5,707 |

## People named Luise

- Luise Rainer, German-born actress (1910–2014)
- Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia, daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1892–1980)
- Marie Luise Kaschnitz, German novelist (1901-1974)
- Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia, daughter of Frederick I of Prussia and Elisabeth Henriette of Hesse-Kassel
- Luise Fleck, Austrian film director, screenwriter, film producer (1873–1950)
- Luise Krüger, German javelin thrower (1915-2001)
- Luise Ullrich, Austrian actress (1910–1985)
- Marie Luise Anna von Preußen, (1829-1901)
- Therese Albertine Luise Robinson, German-American writer (1797–1870)
- Duchess Luise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, (1824-1859)
- Luise Heyer, German actress
- Luise Malzahn, German judoka

## 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.