Louella
Louella was given to 146 girls in 2025, #1,475 among girls’ names; 13,958 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,690 Americans named Louella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (34% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 16 and 80.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Louella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Louella mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Louella is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
From Lou (name) + -ella (diminutive suffix). First attested in the 19th century.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Louella?
#1,475 among girls’ names, 2025
Louella rose from #3,682 in 2015 to #1,475 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 23.5 to 90.8 per million.
266 babies in 1932, the peak
Louella peaked in 1932, when 266 girls were given it, #403 among girls’ names. The 146 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 146 | #1,475 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 149 | #1,469 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 140 | #1,529 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 120 | #1,739 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,200 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,570 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 81 | #2,263 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 95 | #2,055 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,763 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,124 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (144)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,682 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,067 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,388 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,782 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,473 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,304 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,817 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,272 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,983 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,098 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,084 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,706 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,939 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,215 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,964 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,707 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,118 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,555 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,846 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,926 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,268 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,815 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,855 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,788 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,258 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,502 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,203 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,623 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,866 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,401 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,043 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,395 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,854 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,648 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,975 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,006 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,808 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,063 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,852 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,471 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,726 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,794 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,914 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,335 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,281 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 32 | #2,148 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 22 | #2,679 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 48 | #1,627 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 40 | #1,823 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 69 | #1,356 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 65 | #1,382 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 72 | #1,309 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 71 | #1,321 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 57 | #1,463 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 76 | #1,228 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 85 | #1,154 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 97 | #1,058 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 87 | #1,112 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 101 | #995 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 139 | #796 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 116 | #871 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 123 | #823 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 159 | #695 | 0.09 |
| 1950 | 167 | #660 | 0.10 |
| 1949 | 185 | #605 | 0.11 |
| 1948 | 214 | #571 | 0.13 |
| 1947 | 205 | #598 | 0.12 |
| 1946 | 174 | #598 | 0.11 |
| 1945 | 185 | #536 | 0.14 |
| 1944 | 193 | #520 | 0.15 |
| 1943 | 188 | #551 | 0.13 |
| 1942 | 197 | #528 | 0.15 |
| 1941 | 232 | #454 | 0.19 |
| 1940 | 200 | #479 | 0.17 |
| 1939 | 232 | #444 | 0.21 |
| 1938 | 242 | #431 | 0.22 |
| 1937 | 220 | #443 | 0.21 |
| 1936 | 230 | #427 | 0.22 |
| 1935 | 215 | #440 | 0.21 |
| 1934 | 256 | #410 | 0.25 |
| 1933 | 222 | #432 | 0.22 |
| 1932 | 266 | #403 | 0.25 |
| 1931 | 220 | #436 | 0.21 |
| 1930 | 259 | #406 | 0.23 |
| 1929 | 244 | #426 | 0.22 |
| 1928 | 255 | #424 | 0.22 |
| 1927 | 264 | #424 | 0.22 |
| 1926 | 265 | #419 | 0.22 |
| 1925 | 239 | #447 | 0.20 |
| 1924 | 238 | #452 | 0.19 |
| 1923 | 247 | #429 | 0.20 |
| 1922 | 233 | #447 | 0.19 |
| 1921 | 257 | #422 | 0.21 |
| 1920 | 215 | #461 | 0.18 |
| 1919 | 241 | #418 | 0.21 |
| 1918 | 251 | #414 | 0.22 |
| 1917 | 229 | #420 | 0.21 |
| 1916 | 235 | #408 | 0.23 |
| 1915 | 208 | #418 | 0.21 |
| 1914 | 156 | #437 | 0.20 |
| 1913 | 149 | #400 | 0.24 |
| 1912 | 130 | #407 | 0.23 |
| 1911 | 110 | #387 | 0.26 |
| 1910 | 117 | #364 | 0.30 |
| 1909 | 103 | #358 | 0.30 |
| 1908 | 81 | #406 | 0.24 |
| 1907 | 93 | #367 | 0.29 |
| 1906 | 71 | #406 | 0.24 |
| 1905 | 87 | #363 | 0.30 |
| 1904 | 77 | #375 | 0.28 |
| 1903 | 74 | #371 | 0.28 |
| 1902 | 80 | #358 | 0.30 |
| 1901 | 55 | #400 | 0.23 |
| 1900 | 111 | #321 | 0.37 |
| 1899 | 62 | #369 | 0.27 |
| 1898 | 65 | #386 | 0.25 |
| 1897 | 76 | #337 | 0.32 |
| 1896 | 79 | #327 | 0.33 |
| 1895 | 50 | #401 | 0.21 |
| 1894 | 53 | #389 | 0.24 |
| 1893 | 56 | #362 | 0.26 |
| 1892 | 57 | #350 | 0.27 |
| 1891 | 75 | #292 | 0.40 |
| 1890 | 65 | #312 | 0.34 |
| 1889 | 49 | #351 | 0.27 |
| 1888 | 50 | #342 | 0.28 |
| 1887 | 59 | #276 | 0.40 |
| 1886 | 66 | #256 | 0.46 |
| 1885 | 48 | #292 | 0.36 |
| 1884 | 52 | #272 | 0.40 |
| 1883 | 47 | #265 | 0.42 |
| 1882 | 51 | #242 | 0.47 |
| 1881 | 44 | #238 | 0.48 |
| 1880 | 34 | #268 | 0.37 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Louella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Louella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 144 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Louella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Louella, and how old are they?
4,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 34% of the 13,958 Americans ever recorded as Louella. The median Louella alive today is 70 years old; half are between 16 and 80.
The 2020 Census counted 5,067 people named Louella (5,057 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,077 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,140 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,680 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 372 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 168 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 183 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,120 |
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 Louella born?
The states with the most babies named Louella are Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 794 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 671 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 610 | #1,005 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 469 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Kentucky | 415 | #625 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 375 | #1,156 | 1.0× |
| Mississippi | 371 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 340 | #2,664 | 0.5× |
| West Virginia | 338 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 325 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Louella is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Louella is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 3.1 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 Louella 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 47,442 babies since 1880, Louella is the second most given (29% of them). In 2025 it was given to 146 of their 516 babies (28%), again the second most given.
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 Louella
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 Louella and names like it
- Compare Louella and LuellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sLouella peaked in 1932.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Louella since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Louella: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1932The year the most babies were named Louella.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Louella alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.