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Luisa

#903 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Luis

Luisa has been given to 14,405 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #903 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 319 recorded.

Babies named Luisa, 2025

1 in 11,300

Luisa over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Luisa: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Luis

Latin

What Luisa means

Luisa is a feminine form of Luis.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Luisa → Luis → Luis. The family’s meaning is “loud, famous + battle”, recorded in Spanish with the source elements hlūdaz and wīgą.

Origin, language, and formation

Luisa is used in German, Italian and Spanish. Its origins include Latin.

Luisa comes through Old French Louise.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Luis, Louise and Louisa.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Luisa is pronounced [luˈiːza].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,372 girls were recorded with the name Luisa between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 319 in 2022; its best national rank was #715 in 1882.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #997 in 2020 to #903 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,134 in 2015 to #903 in 2025.

In the United States, 33 boys were recorded with the name Luisa between 1971 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1988; its best national rank was #4,719 in 1971.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Luisa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,300
294 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,470
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#903
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,817 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Luisa 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 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 7,817 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Luisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Luisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Luisa was born before 1994 — so the typical Luisa is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
15.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
12,313
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Choose a decade

2000s — 15.6% of all recorded uses (2,246).

Is Luisa 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
−37
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+94
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+231
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.31×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.2%
Peak was 2022 (319)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#715
1882

Spellings of Luisa

Luisa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 40.3% against Luisa's 0.60%.

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 Luisa is used

Across 2016–2025, Luisa was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 2,174 girls, against 1 in 5,453 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 33,333).

346 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 2,174
  2. 2Texas1 in 3,125
  3. 3Arizona1 in 3,226
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 4,000
  5. 5California1 in 4,167
  6. 6Colorado1 in 4,167
  7. 7Florida1 in 4,167
  8. 8New York1 in 5,000

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.

Geographically, Luisa is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 75% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Luisa around the world

Where Luisa 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
    #1,584
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1975–2024
    #638
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2013–2021
    #446
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    1968–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • France
    1921–2025
    #593
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,191
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1945–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Luisa

People whose public names include Luisa, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Luisa in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Luisa. Linked forms have their own page here.

LuiseLuizaLouisaLouiseLoisaLuixaLujzaLluïsaLoeiza

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Luisa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#903
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 94
Best rank ever
#715
1882
Peak year
2022
319 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,372
Count in 2025
294

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,719
1971
Peak year
1988
8 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
33
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Luisa

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

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Names with a curve like Luisa

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Luisa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Luisa

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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