Louise
Louise is ranked 540th among girls in 2024 (559 births). Its best rank was 17th, in 1912–1914.
- Rank in 2024
- #540up 45 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5590.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 19219,180 births
- Best rank
- #17first in 1912
- Since 1880
- 338,078people given the name
The story in the numbers
335,882 girls have been named Louise in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 9,180 births — 0.74% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 559 births in 2024, against 9,180 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 119 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 69 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,196 boys have also been given it, 0.65% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Louise | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 9,596 | |
| 1890s | 15,174 | |
| 1900s | 22,862 | |
| 1910s | 67,973 | |
| 1920s | 82,895 | |
| 1930s | 49,859 | |
| 1940s | 38,664 | |
| 1950s | 25,853 | |
| 1960s | 10,893 | |
| 1970s | 2,918 | |
| 1980s | 1,965 | |
| 1990s | 1,295 | |
| 2000s | 1,035 | |
| 2010s | 2,489 | |
| 2020s | 2,411 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Louise was the 22nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Louise
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elnorapeak 1924
- Ethelynpeak 1920
- Winifredpeak 1918
- Josephinepeak 1918
- Easterpeak 1925
- Rosepeak 1917
- Alicepeak 1921
- Mablepeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.