Louise, Aloisia 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.
[edit] Feminine variants
- Aloisia German, Italian, Spanish
- Aloisie Czech
- Alojza Polish
- Alojzia Hungarian, Slovak
- Alojzija Slovene
- Heloísa Portuguese
- Liudvika Lithuanian
- Lluïsa Catalan
- Loes Dutch
- Lou English, French
- Louella English
- Louisa English
- Louise Danish, Dutch, English, French, Norwegian, Swedish
- Louiza Greek
- Loviisa Finnish
- Loviise Estonian
- Lovisa Swedish
- Lovise Danish, Norwegian
- Lu English
- Luann English
- Luana English, Portuguese
- Luanne English
- Ludovica Italian
- Ludwika Polish
- Luella English
- Luigia Italian
- Luigina Italian
- Luísa Portuguese
- Luisa Italian, Spanish
- Luise German, Estonian
- Luisella Italian
- Luiza Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian
- Lujza Hungarian
- Lula English
- Lulu English, German
- Ouida
- Ruiha Māori
[edit] Famous
- Madonna Louise Ciccone, American singer
- Louise Brooks, American silent film actress
- Louise Fletcher, American actress
- Louise Harman, real name of Lady Sovereign (born 1985), British rapper
- Louise Harrison, British actress
- Louise Jameson, British actress
- Louise Lasser, American actress
- Louise Mitchell, Australian swimmer
- Louise Michaëli, opera singer
- Louise Plowright, British actress
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[edit] Literature
- Luise Aston, German author
- Louise Bogan, poet
- Louise Cooper (1952–2009), British writer
- Luise Gottsched, German poet, playwright, essayist, and translator
- Louise Hay, author and founder of Hay House Publishing
- Luise Hensel, German religious author and poet
- Luise von Ploennies, German poet
[edit] Royalty
- Louise Mountbatten, the Queen of Sweden
- Marie Luise von Degenfeld, countess
- Louise of Savoy, the Queen of France (1476–1531)
- Archduchess Luise, Princess of Tuscany, the daughter of Ferdinand IV of Tuscany and his second wife Alicia of Parma
- Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the Queen of Prussia (1776–1810)
- Lady Louise Windsor, youngest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, daughter of her youngest son Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and his wife, Sophie, Countess of Wessex
- Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1817-1898), queen consort to Christian IX of Denmark
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