Louise (given name)

Louise
Pronunciation	/luˈiːz/ loo-EEZ
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	German; French;
Meaning	"Famous warrior"
Other names
Nickname(s)	Lou; Louie; Lulu; Weazy; Weezy; Louisette; Louweazy;
Related names	Eloise; Aloisia; Louisa; Luisa; Luiza;

Louise and Luise are, respectively, French and German feminine forms of the given name 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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]}

Variants

Aloisia: German, Italian, Spanish
Aloisie: Czech
Alojza: Polish
Alojzia: Hungarian, Slovak
Alojzija: Slovene
Heloísa: Portuguese
Labhaoise: Irish
Liisa: Finnish, Estonian
Liudvika: Lithuanian
Lluïsa: Catalan
Loes: Dutch
Lou: English, French
Louella: English
Louisa: English
Louise: Danish, Dutch, English, French, Norwegian, Swedish
Louiza: Greek (Λουίζα), Kabyle
Louize: Danish, Dutch
Lova: Swedish
Loviisa: Finnish
Loviise: Estonian
Lovisa: Swedish
Lovise: Danish, Norwegian
Lu: English
Luana: English, Portuguese
Luann: English
Luanne: English
Ludovica: Italian, Latin
Ludwika: Polish
Luella: English
Luigia: Italian
Luigina: Italian
Luisa: Italian, Spanish, Estonian
Luísa: Portuguese
Luise: German, Estonian
Luisella: Italian
Luīz: Portuguese, English
Luiza: Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian (Луиза), Albanian
Luīze: Latvian
Lujza: Hungarian, Slovak
Lula: English
Lulu: English, German
Luyiza: Ukrainian (Луїза)
Ruiha: Māori

People with the name

Arts

Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856–1913), American architect
Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), French sculptor
Louise Cotnoir (born 1948), Canadian writer
Louise Murray (1854–1931), American local historian and museum director
Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), American sculptor
Louise Robert (born 1941), Canadian painter
Louise Schatz (1916–1997), Canadian-born Israeli artist and designer
Louise Cooper Spindle (1885–1968), American composer

Entertainment

Louise Abuel (born 2003), Filipino teen actor
Louise Beavers (1902–1962), African-American film and television actress
Louise Bourgoin (born 1981), French actress
Louise Brealey (born 1979), English actress
Louise Brooks (1906–1985), American silent film actress
Louise delos Reyes (born 1992), Filipino actress
Louise Fletcher (1934–2022), American actress
Louise Gold (born 1956), British Muppet performer
Luise Gruber (born 1982), Austrian blues singer-songwriter professionally known as Saint Lu
Louise Harman (born 1985), British rapper better known as Lady Sovereign
Louise Harrison, British actress
Louise Jameson (born 1951), British actress
Louise Labèque (born 2003), French actress
Louise Lasser (born 1939), American actress
Louise Linden (1862–1934), American saxophonist
Louise Madison (1911–1970), American tap dancer
Louise Michaëli (1830–1875), Swedish opera singer
Louise Plowright (1956–2016), British actress
Luise Rainer (1910–2014), German-Austrian-American actress
Louise Redknapp (born 1974), British singer professionally known simply as Louise

Literature

Louise Adler (born 1954), Australian publisher and academic
Luise Aston (1814–1871), German author
Louise Bogan (1897–1970), American poet
Louise Bombardier (born 1953), Canadian actress and writer
Louise Compain (1869–1941), French feminist author
Louise Cooper (1952–2009), British writer
Louise Erdrich (born 1954), American novelist and poet
Louise Flodin (1828–1923), Swedish journalist and publisher
Louise E. Francis (1869–1932), American journalist, editor, publisher, and author
Louise Glück (1943–2023), American poet and essayist who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature
Luise Gottsched (1713–1762), German poet, playwright, essayist, and translator
Louise Granberg (1812–1907), Swedish playwright
Louise Hay (1926–2017), American motivational author and publisher
Luise Hensel (1798–1876), German religious author and poet
Louise Herschman Mannheimer (1845–1920), Czech-American writer, poet, school founder, and inventor
Louise Manning Hodgkins (1846–1935), American educator, author, and editor
Louise Wareham Leonard (born 1965), American author
Louise Markscheffel (1857–1911), American journalist, editor, and critic
Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908), American poet, story-writer, and critic
Louise Rennison (1951–2016), English author and comedian
Louise Willis Snead (1868–1958), American writer, lecturer, and artist
Louise Stockton (1838-1914), American author, journalist, club organizer
Luise von Ploennies (1803–1872), German poet
Louise Collier Willcox (1865–1929), American author, editor, anthologist, translator, and suffragist

Politics

Louise Marcos (born 1959), Filipina lawyer, first lady of the Philippines since 2022, wife of 17th Philippine President Bongbong Marcos
Louise Feltham (1935–2020), Canadian politician
Louise Hardy (born 1959), Canadian politician
Bi-khim Louise Hsiao (born 1971), 13th Vice President of the Republic of China, also known as Hsiao Bi-khim
Louise Thibault (born 1946), Canadian politician

Royalty and nobility

Princess Louise (disambiguation), various princesses
- Lady Louise Windsor (born 2003), granddaughter of Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and only daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh
Queen Louise (disambiguation), various queens
Louise de Brézé (1521–1577), French noble and spouse of Claude, Duke of Aumale
Luise von Degenfeld (1634–1677), countess and morganatic spouse of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine
Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1722–1780), daughter of Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Louise of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1771–1856), countess and abbess of Drübeck Abbey
Louise de Mérode (1819–1868), Belgian noble and spouse of Carlo Emanuele dal Pozzo della Cisterna
Archduchess Louise of Austria (1870–1947), daughter of Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany

Sports

Louise Baxter (born 1983), Scottish field hockey defender
Louise Brough (1923–2014), American tennis player
Louise Carroll (born 1982), Scottish field hockey defender
Louise Christie (born 2000), Scottish rhythmic gymnast
Louise Cooper, former footballer
Luise Krüger (1915–2001), German athlete
Louise Lieberman (born 1977), American soccer coach and former player
Louise Miller (born 1960), English high jumper
Louise Sauvage (born 1973), Australian Paralympic athlete
Louise Vanhille (born 1998), French gymnast
Aristelle Luise Yog-Atouth (born 1994), Gabonese football player

Other people

Louise Arbour (born 1947), Canadian lawyer and diplomat
Louise Archer (1893–1948), American teacher and activist
Louise Brown (born 1978), first human to be born after in vitro fertilisation, in the UK
Louise Charron (born 1951), Canadian lawyer
Louise L. Chase (1840–1906), American social reformer
Louise Cooper, British financial analyst
Louise de Marillac (1591–1660), French co-founder of the Daughters of Charity and Roman Catholic saint
Louise Filion (born 1945), Canadian professor of biogeography
Luise Hercus (1926–2018), German-born Australian linguist
Louise Jensen (died 1994), Danish murder victim
Louise Jordan (1908–1966), American petroleum geologist
Louise Kessenich-Grafemus (1786–1852), Prussian officer
Louise M. Lawson (1855–1951), American temperance activist
Louise Macdonald, national director of the Institute of Directors in Scotland
Louise Davis McMahon (1873–1966), American philanthropist
Louise O'Sullivan (born 1973), Irish telecommunications executive
Louise C. Purington (1844-1916), American physician and temperance movement leader
Louise Ravelli (born 1963), Australian linguist
Louise Signal, New Zealand professor of public health
Louise Reed Stowell (1850–1932), American scientist and author
Louise van den Plas (1877–1968), Belgian suffragist
Louise Adelaide Wolf (1898–1962), American mathematician and university professor

Fictional characters

Lighthouse Louise, a female snail from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Lighthouse Louie". She used to be named Louie, but when she revealed that she has newborn baby snails, she became Louise.
Louise, a character in the manga and anime series Attack on Titan
Louise the Lady of Violets, wife of the sage Lord Pent and a character in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade
Louise Belcher, one of the main characters in animated sitcom Bob's Burgers
Louise Brooks, one of the main characters in the BBC sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
Louise Darling, a friend of Ruby with brown fur in Max & Ruby
Louise Grimsley, long-running character in the crime/mystery serial The Edge of Night
Louise Halevy, supporting character from the Gundam 00 franchise
Louise "Weezie" Jefferson, neighbor of Archie Bunker in All in the Family and a main character in the spin-off The Jeffersons
Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière, the female protagonist in the light novel, anime, and manga series Zero no Tsukaima
Louise Maigret (née Leonard), wife of Inspector Jules Maigret, a fictional detective in novels by Georges Simenon
Louise Mallard, main character from "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
Louise "Lulu" Moppet, the main character of Little Lulu comics
Louise Sawyer, one of the title characters of the movie Thelma & Louise
Louise Sidell, the title character's closest friend in the Penny Parker books
Louise, a character from Touhou Project
Louise, one of the characters in the Harry and Louise political advertising campaign of 1993-94, portrayed by actress Louise Caire Clark