Luisa
Luisa was given to 294 girls in 2025, #903 among girls’ names; 14,405 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,200 Americans named Luisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 13 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Luisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Luisa mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Luisa is “a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Louise or Louisa”
From Old French Louise, feminine of Louis.
/luˈi.za/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Luisa?
#903 among girls’ names, 2025
Luisa rose from #1,134 in 2015 to #903 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.13 to 0.18 per 1,000.
319 babies in 2022, the peak
Luisa peaked in 2022, when 319 girls were given it, #873 among girls’ names. The 294 births of 2025 are 92% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 294 | #903 | 0.18 |
| 2024 | 313 | #866 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 276 | #951 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 319 | #873 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 262 | #988 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 256 | #997 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 262 | #985 | 0.16 |
| 2018 | 222 | #1,110 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 228 | #1,105 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 211 | #1,186 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (143)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 224 | #1,134 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 181 | #1,311 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 205 | #1,175 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 180 | #1,312 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 224 | #1,101 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 209 | #1,163 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 210 | #1,194 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 198 | #1,263 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 230 | #1,127 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 260 | #998 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 226 | #1,059 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 234 | #1,012 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 223 | #1,030 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 236 | #947 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 211 | #1,020 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 218 | #972 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 249 | #865 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 195 | #1,020 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 169 | #1,113 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 189 | #995 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 189 | #993 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 178 | #1,034 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 180 | #1,025 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 188 | #1,003 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 181 | #1,015 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 193 | #968 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 180 | #967 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 162 | #1,010 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 159 | #990 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 124 | #1,154 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 125 | #1,146 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 171 | #881 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 138 | #1,021 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 152 | #975 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 139 | #1,035 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 120 | #1,138 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 147 | #978 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 120 | #1,094 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 108 | #1,158 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 124 | #1,013 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 116 | #1,036 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 81 | #1,319 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 111 | #1,050 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 98 | #1,129 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 101 | #1,155 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 125 | #1,003 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 99 | #1,116 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 100 | #1,048 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 97 | #1,052 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 105 | #1,006 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 109 | #998 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 94 | #1,139 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 84 | #1,194 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 97 | #1,108 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 102 | #1,088 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 87 | #1,171 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 96 | #1,091 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 86 | #1,147 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 73 | #1,233 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 71 | #1,238 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 73 | #1,172 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 64 | #1,244 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 59 | #1,270 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 63 | #1,205 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 66 | #1,153 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 64 | #1,158 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 63 | #1,149 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 45 | #1,377 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 45 | #1,387 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 41 | #1,368 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 32 | #1,434 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 39 | #1,286 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,571 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,517 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 40 | #1,200 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 34 | #1,285 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,368 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,359 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 31 | #1,321 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 37 | #1,175 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,470 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 33 | #1,249 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 37 | #1,170 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 41 | #1,121 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 43 | #1,085 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 56 | #988 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 44 | #1,115 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 69 | #884 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 73 | #868 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 63 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 55 | #1,014 | 0.05 |
| 1924 | 82 | #826 | 0.07 |
| 1923 | 59 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 59 | #973 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 72 | #873 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 55 | #999 | 0.05 |
| 1919 | 46 | #1,084 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 58 | #942 | 0.05 |
| 1917 | 43 | #1,094 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 40 | #1,122 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 32 | #1,242 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 33 | #1,053 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 29 | #1,016 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 27 | #993 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 34 | #750 | 0.08 |
| 1910 | 24 | #887 | 0.06 |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,256 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 22 | #844 | 0.07 |
| 1907 | 13 | #1,118 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 16 | #945 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 18 | #889 | 0.06 |
| 1904 | 16 | #925 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,110 | 0.04 |
| 1902 | 16 | #891 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 13 | #946 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,143 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 12 | #957 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 14 | #946 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 12 | #959 | 0.05 |
| 1896 | 11 | #1,026 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,258 | 0.03 |
| 1894 | 12 | #927 | 0.05 |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,060 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 12 | #885 | 0.06 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,444 | 0.03 |
| 1890 | 10 | #912 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,215 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,227 | 0.03 |
| 1887 | 9 | #829 | 0.06 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,054 | 0.04 |
| 1885 | 6 | #1,000 | 0.05 |
| 1883 | 5 | #993 | 0.04 |
| 1882 | 8 | #715 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Luisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Luisa has been given almost only to girls: 33 boys in 143 years of records.
Girls and boys named Luisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Luisa, and how old are they?
12,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 14,405 Americans ever recorded as Luisa. The median Luisa alive today is 27 years old; half are between 13 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 32,462 people named Luisa (32,333 women and girls, 129 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,850 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 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 | 182 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,090 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,650 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,440 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,230 |
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 Luisa born?
The states with the most babies named Luisa are Texas, California and New York, with 51% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 51 | #620 | 2.8× |
| California | 44 | #709 | 1.8× |
| New York | 29 | #579 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 20 | #818 | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #463 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 11 | #611 | 1.6× |
| Tennessee | 9 | #794 | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,081 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,159 | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,107 | 0.9× |
Where Luisa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Luisa is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.8 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 Luisa 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 15,234 babies since 1880, Luisa is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 294 of their 294 babies (100%), again the 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 Luisa
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 Luisa and names like it
- Compare Luisa and LuiseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLuisa peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Luisa since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Luisa: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Luisa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Luisa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.