Louisiana

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Louisiana has been given to 316 babies in the U.S. since 1886. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Louisiana, 2021

1 in 678,000

Louisiana over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Louisiana: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Louisiana means

Louisiana is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from French Louisiane, named for King Louis XIV of France.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Louisiana (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Louisiana is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Louisiana is pronounced /luːˌiːziˈænə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 316 girls were recorded with the name Louisiana between 1886 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1920; its best national rank was #955 in 1886.

How common is Louisiana?

Louisiana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021: 1 in 678,000; 5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only: 1 in 328,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 469,949 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Louisiana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Louisiana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Louisianas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Louisiana was born before 1918 — so the typical Louisiana is around 107 today.

Median birth year: 1918; About 107 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 24.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 17.7%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 72; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 24.4% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Louisiana 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1920 (11)
Years since peak: 105; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 29.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #955; 1886

Spellings of Louisiana

Louisiana is not the most common spelling — Luisana is, with 65.6% against Louisiana's 34.4%.

Luisana65.6%603
Louisiana34.4%316

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.

Where Louisiana is used

Across 1910–2025, Louisiana was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 181,490 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Louisiana1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Louisiana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Louisiana around the world

Where Louisiana 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
2007–2025
#2,278
in 2025
France
1989–2025
#6,451
in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Louisiana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #955; 1886
Peak year: 1920; 11 that year
First recorded: 1886
Last recorded: 2021
All-time count: 316
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Louisiana

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

Louana Amilliana Audreyana Louwana Feliciana Graciana Sebastiana Marciana Soliyana Leighana Loucille Amiliana Lucciana Louvinia Louretta Oliviana Loucinda Cristiana Aliciana Leiliana Ameliana Averyana Layliana Aaradhana

Sibling names for Louisiana

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

For a sister

Norine Vina Mozelle Marcelle Oleta Syble Adella Mittie

For a brother

Junius Dock Rupert Orin Otha Hilton Casimir Edd

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