Louise


Gender:
Origin: German
1230 famous people named Louise found on Wikipedia.
333002 female, 2188 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 800-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 17-th in year 1914
Used in: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Swedish

Meanings

Louise and Luise are, respectively, French and German feminine forms of Louis. Louise has been regularly used as a female name in English speaking countries since the middle of the 19th century. It has ranked among the top 100 names given to girls in France, England, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden and Wales in recent years. It last ranked among the top 1,000 first names for girls born in the United States in 1991, but remains a more common middle name.

Also Louisa, fem. proper name, from French, fem. of Louis.

Form of Ludwig: combine of hlud (famous) and wig (war, battle).

Famous People: 1230 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Tina Louise 1934 Actress, singer, author
2 Louise Redknapp 1974 British singer
3 Louise Fletcher 1934 American film and television actress
4 Louise Mensch 1971 British politician
5 Louise Linton 1980 Scottish actress
6 Louise Minchin 1968 British journalist and news presenter
7 Louise Brooks 1906 American dancer and actress
8 Louise Brealey 1979 British actress
9 Louise Lasser 1939 American actress
10 Louise Goffin 1960 Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
11 Louise Pentland 1985 English blogger
12 Louise Hazel 1985 British heptathlete
13 Louise Bourgeois 1911 American and French sculptor
14 Louise Brown 1978 First in-vitro baby
15 Louise Lombard 1970 English actress
16 Louise Penny 1958 Canadian woman writer
17 Louise Hay 1926 American writer
18 Louise de La Vallière 1644 Mistress of Louis XIV
19 Louise Erdrich 1954 Writer from the United States
20 Louise Jameson 1951 English actress
21 Louise Sorel 1940 Actress
22 Louise Tracy 1896 Founder of the John Tracy clinic
23 Louise Barnes 1974 South African actress
24 Louise Woodward case 1978 English criminal
25 Louise D’Tuani 1989 Brazilian actress
26 Louise delos Reyes 1993 Filipina actress
27 Louise of Hesse-Kassel 1817 Queen consort of Denmark
28 Louise Lear 1968 Weather forecaster
29 Louise Delamere 1969 English actress
30 Louise Mountbatten 1889 Queen of Sweden
31 Louise Rennison 1951 British writer
32 Louise Bryant 1885 American journalist
33 Louise Marie Thérèse 1664 French nun
34 Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1776 Queen consort of Prussia
35 Louise Post 1966 American musician
36 Louise Beavers 1902 Actress
37 Louise Nevelson 1899 American sculptor
38 Louise Bourgoin 1981 Bretton actress
39 Louise Mandrell 1954 American musician
40 Louise Griffiths 1978 British singer
41 Louise of Great Britain 1724 Daughter of George II of Great Britain; Queen consort of Denmark and Norway
42 Louise Richardson 1958 Irish political scientist
43 Louise Summers
44 Louise Wener 1966 British musician
45 Louise of Orléans 1812 French princess; Consort of Léopold I of Belgium
46 Louise Slaughter 1929 American politician, activist
47 Louise of Sweden 1851 Queen consort of Denmark
48 Anita Louise 1915 Actress
49 Louise Lehzen 1784 Governess, adviser and companion to Queen Victoria of England
50 Louise Troy 1933 American actress
51 Louise Cromwell Brooks 1890 American socialite
52 Louise English 1962 British actress
53 Louise Roe 1981 British journalist
54 Louise Michel 1830 French author and anarchist
55 Louise Plowright 1956 British actress
56 Louise Doughty 1963 English novelist, playwright and journalist
57 Louise Cliffe 1986 British actress and model
58 Louise Marwood 1979
59 Emma Louise 1993 Australian singer
60 Louise Glover 1983 English model
61 Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth 1649 English noble
62 Louise Arbour 1947 Canadian judge
63 Louise Robey 1960 Singer-songwriter, model, and actress
64 Louise of Lorraine 1553 Queen consort of France
65 Louise Latham 1922 American actress
66 Louise Jefferson
67 Louise Bennett-Coverley 1919 Poet, writer and folklorist
68 Louise Simonson 1946 Writer
69 Louise Glück 1943 American poet
70 Louise de Marillac 1591 Dedico mucho de su vida a los pobres
71 Louise of the Netherlands 1828 Queen of Sweden and Norway
72 Louise Whitfield Carnegie 1857 American philanthropist
73 Louise Wallace 1959 New Zealand television presenter
74 Louise of Savoy 1476 Mother of King Francis I of France
75 Louise Borgia, Duchess of Valentinois 1500 French aristocrat
76 Louise Anastasya 1983 Indonesian actress
77 Louise Bours 1968 British politician
78 Louise Peete 1880 American murderer
79 Louise Johnson 1940 British biochemist and protein crystallographer
80 Louise Élisabeth of France 1727 French princess
81 Louise Leakey 1971 Kenyan paleontologist
82 Louise Ellman 1945 British politician
83 Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon 1673 French godparent
84 Louise Casey 1965 British public official
85 Louise Thompson
86 Louise Lee 1950 Hong Kong actor
87 Louise Fazenda 1895 Actress
88 Louise Haigh 1987 British politician
89 Louise Dearman 1979 British actress
90 Louise Gold 1956 British actor, singer and puppeteer
91 Louise Piëch 1904 Austrian businessman
92 Louise Martini 1931 Austrian actor and radio host
93 Harry and Louise Series of American political ads about healthcare
94 Louise Wightman 1959 American bodybuilder and erotic dancer
95 Louise de Maisonblanche 1676 French noble
96 Louise Suggs 1923 Professional golfer
97 Louise Day Hicks 1916 American politician
98 Louise Platt 1915 Actress
99 Louise Groenman 1940 Dutch politician
100 Louise Rosenblatt 1904 University professor
101 Louise McKinney 1868 Canadian politician
102 Louise Farrenc 1804 French composer, virtuosa pianist and teacher
103 Louise Armstrong 1937 American writer and feminist
104 Louise Goodman British journalist
105 Louise Appleton
106 Louise Labé 1524 A female French poet of the Renaissance, born in Lyon.
107 Louise Bogan 1897 American poet
108 Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco 1697 Princess regnant of Monaco and Monegasque princess
109 Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans 1709 Queen consort of Spain
110 Louise Laroche 1910
111 Louise Germaine 1971 British actress
112 Louise Abbéma 1853 French painter, sculptor, and designer of the Belle Époque
113 Louise Deschâtelets 1945 Canadian actress
114 Louise Frevert 1953 Danish member of the Danish parliament
115 Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon 1693 French princess
116 Louise de Coligny-Châtillon 1881 French aviator
117 Louise Blouin 1958 Canadian magazine publisher
118 Louise Tourret 1975 French journalist
119 Louise Lawler 1947 American photographer
120 Louise Watson 1919 Actress
121 Louise Rémy 1938
122 Louise Christian 1952 American lawyer
123 Louise Dresser 1878 Actress
124 Louise Raymond
125 Louise Abuel 2003 Filipino child actor
126 Louise Wilson 1962
127 Louise Fitzhugh 1928 American children's writer
128 Louise Camuto Swedish model
129 Louise Henriette de Bourbon 1726
130 Louise de Clermont 1504
131 Louise Nicholas New Zealand victim of rape
132 Louise Julie de Mailly 1710 Mistress of Louis XV of France
133 Louise Lecavalier 1958 Canadian dancer
134 Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate 1622 German artist
135 Louise de Broglie, comtesse d'Haussonville 1818 French writer (1818-1882)
136 Helli Louise 1949 British actress
137 Louise Mushikiwabo 1961 Rwandan politician
138 Louise Monot 1981 A French actress and model
139 Louise Brough 1923 US tennis player
140 Louise Allbritton 1920 American actress
141 Louise Sauvage 1973 Australian paralympic athlete
142 Louise Bawden 1981 Australian female beach volleyball player Olympian
143 Louise O'Neill Irish writer
144 Louise Harris Actress
145 Louise Weiss 1893 French journalist, writer, feminist & politician
146 Louise Glaum 1888 Actress
147 Louise Pratt 1972 Senator for Western Australia
148 Louise Rasmussen 1815 Danish ballet dancer and actress, morganatic spouse of King Frederick VII of Denmark.
149 Louise Crawford Australian actress
150 Louise Dahl-Wolfe 1895 Photographer
151 Louise Kink 1908 Titanic survivor
152 Louise de Coligny 1555 Fourth wife of William the Silent
153 Louise von Plessen 1725 Lady-in-waiting, writer
154 Louise Burfitt-Dons 1953 Activist, writer, blogger
155 Louise Elisabeth de Meuron 1882 Swiss aristocrat
156 Louise Latraverse 1940 Canadian actrisse
157 Louise Stern 1978 Writer
158 Louise Pitre 1957 Canadian actress
159 Louise Caselotti 1910 American opera singer
160 Louise Sébastienne Danton 1777
161 Louise Bertin 1805 French composer
162 Louise Colet 1810 French poet
163 Louise Boyd 1887 American explorer
164 Louise Thaden 1905 American aviator
165 Louise Edlind Friberg 1946 Swedish politician
166 Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow 1667 Queen consort of Denmark and Norway
167 Louise Merzeau 1963 French academic, professor at Paris Ouest university in information sciences
168 Louise Turcot 1944 Canadian actress
169 Louise Irvine 1957 British GP, campaigner and parliamentary candidate
170 Louise Burns 1985 Canadian musician
171 Louise Smith 1916 American racing driver
172 Louise Raeder 1962 Swedish actress
173 Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon 1674 Illegitamate daughter of Louis XIV of France
174 Louise Tobin 1918 American singer
175 Louise Welsh 1965 British writer
176 Louise Rayner 1832 Artist
177 Louise de Rohan 1704 French noblewoman
178 Merle Louise 1934 American actress
179 Louise Fili 1951 American artist
180 Louise Cooper 1952 British writer
181 Louise Sunshine 1940
182 Louise Diane d'Orléans 1716 18th-century French noblewoman
183 Louise Fresco 1952 Dutch agronomist
184 Louise Wischermann 1974 Brazilian actress
185 Louise Shaffer 1942 American actress
186 Louise Berridge British television producer
187 Louise Roux 1932 Canadian actor (1932-1990)
188 Louise Abeita 1926 20th century Isleta Pueblo author
189 Louise Fréchette 1946 Canadian diplomat
190 Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans 1698 French abbess
191 Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin 1902 French writer
192 Louise Lamphere 1940 American anthropologist
193 Louise Currie 1913 Actress from the United States
194 Louise de Bettignies 1880 World War I French spy
195 Louise Erickson 1928 Actress
196 Louise Aitken-Walker 1960 British racing driver
197 Louise Richer Actress
198 Louise Anne de Bourbon 1695 French noble
199 Louise McManus 1896 American nurse
200 Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon 1676 French royal