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The first name 
Luise

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

Luise – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Luise has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Luise. That means that a girl named Luise is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Luise.

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

Luise -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Luise. Girls named Luise have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,315 Luise ranked higher than ever in 1937. By comparison, there have been 86 years in which the first name Luise has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2021. In general, parents name their daughters Luise only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!

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

Luise in 2022 – a precious jewel

In 2022, Luise continues to be a precious jewel: 5 newborns were named Luise that year, ranking #13,280 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Luise, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.

Luise -
at home in

Meeting a woman or girl named Luise is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Luise can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Luise. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Luise living in one state or another (if your name is Luise and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Luise is in New York, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New York, only 0.00032% of all female residents are named Luise – that’s just one in 314,035! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 38 women with that name. So, if your name is Luise, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.

Luise 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 Luise 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 e

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

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Luise

If your name is Luise 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 Luise

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

Lion

Unicorn

Igloo

Sun

Elephant

This is how the name Luise 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 Luise in Braille?

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

Luise

Luise

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

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Luise 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
E

Have you ever waved the name Luise

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
E

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. Luise sounds like this: