Entry № 6043 · French origin

Louise Louise — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ loo-EEZ /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Famous warrior (Louise Glück, 2020 Nobel Literature)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "famous warrior (louise glück, 2020 nobel literature)".

Louise is the French feminine of Louis — from the Old Germanic hlud (famous) + wig (war, battle). Louise Lasser (Mary Hartman).

Famous warrior (Louise Glück, 2020 Nobel Literature) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Louise
Transliteration
Louise
Pronunciation
/ luˈiːz /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Louise stands.

Louise 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.

Louises before her.

Real people
Louise Glück
American Nobel poet.
1943 – 2023
Louise Bourgeois
French-American sculptor.
1911 – 2010
Louise Erdrich
American novelist.
born 1954
Louise Brooks
American silent-film actress.
1906 – 1985
In fiction
Louise Belcher
Bob's Burgers.
2011

Names connected to Louise.

The number behind Louise.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Louise reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.