Louisa is the German feminine form of the Dutch and French name Louis, which derives from the Germanic Hludwig, meaning ‘famous in battle’. It composed of ‘hlut’ for ‘famous, loud’ and ‘wig’ for ‘war, battle’.
Louisa is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Louisa isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Louisa ranks 740. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Louisa. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Louisa.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Louisa annualy. This means that there have been girls named Louisa who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Louisa have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Louisa even more than any other time: in 1881, it holds its present record of rank #116 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Louisa was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Louisa has never been ranked higher than #116. In 2022, she rivaled the 751 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 337 girls named Louisa were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Louisa were born, there have been 121 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With six letters, the name Louisa is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Louisa and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Louisa, you can simply say:
Lion
Orange
Unicorn
Igloo
Sun
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Louisa
Louisa
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
O
U
I
S
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
O
U
I
S
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Louisa sounds like this:
