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Loui

#9,385 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Louie

Loui has been given to 149 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #9,385 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Loui, 2025

1 in 414,000

Loui over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Loui: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Louie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Loui means

Loui is a variant of Louie.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Louie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 149 boys were recorded with the name Loui between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2021; its best national rank was #5,925 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,184 in 2020 to #9,385 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,562 in 2015 to #9,385 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Loui?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,385
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Loui sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Loui. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Louis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Loui was born before 2018 — so the typical Loui is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
43.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
149
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 43.0% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Loui rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,292
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+799
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,177
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.3%
Peak was 2021 (15)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,925
2021

Spellings of Loui

Loui is not the most common spelling — Louis is, with 38.1% against Loui's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Loui around the world

Where Loui ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,406
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2005–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2020
    #6,283
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1957–1985
    #449
    in 1985

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Loui by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,385
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 799
Best rank ever
#5,925
2021
Peak year
2021
15 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
149
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Loui

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

LouayLoukaLoudenLoukasLoudonLouLourdesLouaiLouiaLoucasLoucaLouiseLouieLougeneLouisaLouardLourenceLouis

Sibling names for Loui

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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