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The first name 
Luisa

Luisa is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.

Luisa is a well-known but special name!

Luisa is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,013 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,012 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Luisa.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Luisa

Luisa -
a special name with a long history going back to the 19th century

Luisa is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 1884, where the name Luisa was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Luisa and were born in the USA in 1884, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Luisa even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1882, it ranked on position 643 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Luisa was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Happy Birthday - 314 girls named Luisa celebrate their second birthday this year!

Although the name Luisa has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 314 times and thus landed on position 802 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular female first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 314 girls with the name Luisa, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.

Luisa has 5 letters 
and begins with an L

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 five letters, the name Luisa is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.

Other names with 
L, u, i, s and a

If you take all the letters in the name Luisa – L, u, i, s and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Isaul or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Luisa

If your name is Luisa 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...

This is how you spell the name Luisa

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Luisa, you can simply say:

Lion

Unicorn

Igloo

Sun

Apple

This is how the name Luisa is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Luisa in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Luisa

Luisa

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Luisa

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Luisa is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

L
U
I
S
A

Have you ever waved the name Luisa

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
U
I
S
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Luisa sounds like this: