Louis
Louis places #249 across the country in 2025, neither climbing nor fading. It crested back in 1921, and what is left is the good kind of familiar: heard of, rarely met.
What Louis carries
Louis · Teutonic
“famous war”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Louis’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Louis, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Louis since 1880
Louis peaked in 1921 at #29; #249 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Louis is most common
Louis is most common in Vermont: 0.5% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. District of Columbia (0.32%) and South Dakota (0.29%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Louis
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Walter
#252 in 2025 · Teutonic
Warren
#240 in 2025 · Teutonic
Edward
#224 in 2025 · Teutonic
Luis
#144 in 2025 · Teutonic
Elsie
#123 in 2025 · Teutonic
Alice
#65 in 2025 · Teutonic
Leon
#138 in 2025 · Greek
Leonardo
#91 in 2025 · Teutonic
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About Louis
How popular is the name Louis?
Louis places #249 across the country in 2025, neither climbing nor fading. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What is the recorded meaning of Louis?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “famous war”, of Teutonic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Louis?
Nearest by the published recipe: Walter, Warren and Edward. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
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