Louann
Louann was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,838 among girls’ names; 5,197 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,830 Americans named Louann and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (74% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 58 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Louann by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Louann?
#9,838 among girls’ names, 2025
Louann rose from #18,058 in 2015 to #9,838 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 6.2 per million.
273 babies in 1953, the peak
Louann peaked in 1953, when 273 girls were given it, #517 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,838 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,536 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,627 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,034 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,717 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,546 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,267 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,686 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,761 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,058 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #10,606 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,433 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,898 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,180 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,744 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,837 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,326 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,611 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,291 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,982 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,953 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,110 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,227 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,678 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,413 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,116 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,788 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,470 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,513 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,428 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,044 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,854 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,992 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,625 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,501 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,111 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,102 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,582 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,143 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,295 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,988 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,496 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,231 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,650 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,449 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,446 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,517 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 48 | #1,891 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 42 | #2,014 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 38 | #2,109 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 64 | #1,496 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 56 | #1,653 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 67 | #1,497 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 72 | #1,346 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 76 | #1,260 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 72 | #1,276 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 78 | #1,218 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 111 | #987 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 122 | #953 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 155 | #840 | 0.08 |
| 1962 | 173 | #792 | 0.09 |
| 1961 | 207 | #722 | 0.10 |
| 1960 | 210 | #704 | 0.10 |
| 1959 | 194 | #722 | 0.10 |
| 1958 | 217 | #671 | 0.11 |
| 1957 | 207 | #693 | 0.10 |
| 1956 | 164 | #763 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 200 | #661 | 0.10 |
| 1954 | 244 | #576 | 0.13 |
| 1953 | 273 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1952 | 84 | #1,023 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 80 | #1,041 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 76 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 58 | #1,197 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 63 | #1,131 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 60 | #1,165 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 62 | #1,081 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 67 | #932 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 64 | #977 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 80 | #876 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 88 | #821 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 72 | #859 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 72 | #844 | 0.06 |
| 1939 | 56 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 71 | #843 | 0.06 |
| 1937 | 56 | #925 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 69 | #812 | 0.07 |
| 1935 | 56 | #932 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 52 | #963 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 47 | #1,014 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 40 | #1,142 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 30 | #1,359 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 33 | #1,337 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,142 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,710 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,913 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,649 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,254 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,182 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,727 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,563 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Louann a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Louann has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 101 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Louann: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Louann, and how old are they?
3,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 74% of the 5,197 Americans ever recorded as Louann. The median Louann alive today is 66 years old; half are between 58 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 8,434 people named Louann (8,421 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,173 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 346 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,280 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 795 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 218 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 115 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 78 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Louann born?
The states with the most babies named Louann are Pennsylvania, New York and Michigan, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 385 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 329 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 320 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Wisconsin | 234 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Minnesota | 233 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Ohio | 196 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 186 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 171 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 144 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 108 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Louann is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Louann is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1921 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Louann with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,069 babies since 1880, Louann is the most given (86% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 24 babies (42%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Louann
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Louann and names like it
- Compare Louann and LoanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLouann peaked in 1953.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Louann since 1910.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Louann.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Louann alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.