Louisa
Louisa is ranked 733rd among girls in 2024 (383 births). Its best rank was 119th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- #733up 74 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3830.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 2021424 births
- Best rank
- #119in 1881
- Since 1880
- 21,523people given the name
The story in the numbers
21,523 girls have been named Louisa in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 424 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 955 → 733).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1958, and the 2010s alone account for 14%. It has spent 101 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Louisa | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,420 | |
| 1890s | 1,272 | |
| 1900s | 993 | |
| 1910s | 1,619 | |
| 1920s | 1,765 | |
| 1930s | 1,227 | |
| 1940s | 1,284 | |
| 1950s | 1,442 | |
| 1960s | 1,371 | |
| 1970s | 1,005 | |
| 1980s | 1,072 | |
| 1990s | 1,084 | |
| 2000s | 1,154 | |
| 2010s | 2,939 | |
| 2020s | 1,876 |
In 2021, its biggest year
Louisa was the 687th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2021 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Ava. See all of 2021.
Names that rose and fell with Louisa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Corapeak 2019
- Phebepeak 2011
- Sinapeak 1917
- Bellepeak 1915
- Senapeak 2023
- Lidapeak 1918
- Molliepeak 1915
- Adahpeak 2020
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.