Entry № 6042 · Germanic origin

Louisa Louisa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ loo-EE-zah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
Meaning
"Famous warrior (Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "famous warrior (louisa may alcott, author of little women)".

Louisa is the feminine of Louis — from the Old Germanic Hludwig (hlut = famous + wig = warrior).

Subject of Greta Gerwig's Little Women (2019 film).

Famous warrior. Little Women is the most-read American novel by a woman of the 19th century.

The name in its native script.

Louisa
Transliteration
Louisa
Pronunciation
/ luːˈiː.zə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Louisa stands.

Louisa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Louisas before her.

Real people
Louisa May Alcott
American novelist.
1832 – 1888
Louisa Adams
First Lady of the United States.
1775 – 1852
In fiction
Louisa
Jojo Moyes's Me Before You.
2012

Names connected to Louisa.

The number behind Louisa.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Louisa reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.