Luise
Luise was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 586 Americans have been recorded with it between 1909 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Luise by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Luise mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Luise is “a female given name, equivalent to English Louise”
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Luise?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,749, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1937, the peak
Luise peaked in 1937, when 27 girls were given it, #1,436 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #16,749 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,561 | 3.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,806 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,987 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,316 | 2.6 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,039 | 3.3 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,679 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,100 | 4.7 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,794 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,121 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 15 | #3,412 | 7.4 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,942 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,636 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,753 | 3.9 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,009 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,953 | 3.6 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,331 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,233 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,563 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,491 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,446 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,059 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,550 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,027 | 13.8 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,870 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,074 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,369 | 11.1 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,960 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,505 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,370 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,845 | 17.2 |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,436 | 25.4 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,459 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,617 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,658 | 6.7 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,202 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,961 | 4.4 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,447 | 7.5 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,621 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,871 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,380 | 12.8 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,541 | 11.6 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,758 | 20.0 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,798 | 19.5 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,730 | 20.0 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,337 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,108 | 6.0 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,498 | 12.0 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,085 | 15.3 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,478 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,551 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,106 | 16.0 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,924 | 17.9 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,882 | 19.1 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,046 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,694 | 23.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Luise a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Luise has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 57 years of records.
Girls and boys named Luise: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Luise, and how old are they?
An estimated 207 Americans named Luise and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (35% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 62 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,222 people named Luise (916 women and girls, 306 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 246 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.0 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 14,991 babies since 1880, Luise is the second most given (3.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 294 babies recorded by SSA was a Luise (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Luise
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 Luise and names like it
- Compare Luise and LuisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sLuise peaked in 1937.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Luise since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Luise: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1937The year the most babies were named Luise.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Luise alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.