Louis
Top 1000
About Louis
Kate and William shocked the world when they announced that they'd named their third child Louis, or Prince Louis Arthur Charles, to be more precise. But we've been predicting a comeback for this classic name for a long time.
Derived from the Germanic Ludwig, Louis is hugely popular in France, Belgium, and Quebec where it ranks in the Top 10, though it is also on trend in the UK, The Netherlands, Switzerland, New Zealand, Australia, and Germany, where it features in the Top 100.
In the US, Louis was hugely popular in the late 19th and early 20th century and has remained consistently, if more quietly used ever since. It currently features in the Top 300 and has been used by several other celeb parents such as Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman.
A name with plenty of history, it has long been borne by French royalty, while other bearers include musicians Louis Armstrong and Louis Tomlinson, writer Robert Louis Stevenson, journalist Louis Theroux, and businessman Louis Vuitton.
One thing to keep in mind with this classic is that its pronunciation varies depending on language and preference. In French, LWEE is heard, while in the UK, it is typically said as LOO-ee, though LOO-is may also be heard. In Dutch, it is loo-EE, while in the US, it is mostly LOO-is.
To get around the pronunciation confusion, many parents especially go with Louie, which ranks above Louis in the UK. There's also Lewis, the Medieval English form, and hugely popular in Scotland,
Pronounced LOO-ee.
As of October 2026, Louis ranked #249 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #18 in 1882, Nameberry popularity #145.
Editor's take: The name Louis is a boy's name of German, French origin meaning "renowned warrior".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #289 | 1,229 | 639.8 |
| 2015 | #296 | 1,210 | 631.3 |
| 2016 | #290 | 1,242 | 654.5 |
| 2017 | #277 | 1,302 | 703.4 |
| 2018 | #260 | 1,387 | 763.7 |
| 2019 | #249 | 1,475 | 822.1 |
| 2020 | #260 | 1,334 | 772.9 |
| 2021 | #251 | 1,418 | 810.5 |
| 2022 | #245 | 1,442 | 825.9 |
| 2023 | #238 | 1,477 | 863.5 |
| 2024 | #236 | 1,503 | 872.4 |
| 2025 | #249 | 1,391 | 814.4 |
World rankings
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- Francis
- Calvin
- Oscar
- Alfred
- Patrick
- Vincent
- Albert
- Lawrence
Louis on lists
Famous Louiss
- Louis David Riel
Canadian politician
- Louis I
XV, Kings of France
- Louis XVI (Louis
Auguste), King of France
- Louis XVII (Louis
Charles), Dauphin (or King) of France
- Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier)
King of France
- Louis XIX (Louis Antoine)
King of France [for 20 minutes]
- (Charles
)Louis,Napoléon Bonaparte aka Napoleon III, Emperor of France
- Louis Phillippe
King of France
- Louis I and II
Kings of Hungary
- Louis I
III, Kings of Naples
- Louis I
IV, Holy Roman Emperors
- Louis I
III, Kings of Bavaria
- Louis I and II
Kings of Etruria
- Louis I and II Bonaparte
Kings of Holland
- Louis I and II
Princes of Monaco
- Louis I (Louis Felipe)
King of Spain
- Louis Ferdinand
Dauphin of France, son of Louis XV; father of Louis XVI
- Louis Alexander
Prince of Battenberg, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, grandfather of Britain's Prince Philip
- Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas "Dickie" Mountbatten
1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, uncle of Prince Philip
- Louis Alphonse Gonzalve Victor Emmanuel Marc de Bourbon
Duke of Anjou, claimant to the French throne
- Louis Armstrong
American jazz trumpeter and singer
- Louis Sebastian Theroux
English broadcaster
- Louis Silvie "Louie" Zamperini
American Olympic distance runner and WWII POW camp survivor
- Louis Stanton Auchincloss
American novelist and lawyer
- Louis Thauron
French ice dancer
- Louis William Tomlinson
English singer of group One Direction
- Louis Nicholas Vasquez
American football player
- Louis Morris Murphy
American football player
- Louis C.K. (born Louis Szekely)
American comedian
- Louis Burt Mayer
American film producer
- Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze
Leib Schmuilowsky), American architect
- (Michael) Louis Vincent Walsh
Irish entertainment manager
- Louis Henry Sullivan
American architect
- Louis Francis Cristillo
birth name of American actor and comedian Lou Costello
- Louis Carl "Lou" Dobbs
American TV personality
- Louis Jude "Lou" Ferrigno
American actor
- Louis Cameron Gossett Jr.
American actor
- Louis Dearborn L'Amour
American novelist
- Louis Prima
American musician
- Louis Thomas Jordan
American musician
- Louis Allen "Lou" Rawls
American singer
- Louis Sachar
American novelist
- (Jules Eugène) Louis Jouvet
French actor and director
- Louis Vuitton
French fashion designer
- Louis Dembitz Brandeis
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Louis Pasteur
French chemist
- Louis Richard "Lou" Rukeyser
American financial journalist and TV commentator
- Louis Braille
French inventor
- Louis Renault
French jurist
- Louis Charles Philippe Raphaël
Prince of Orléans, Duke of Nemours; son of Louis,Philippe I of France
- Louis Ferdinand (Friedrich Ludwig Christian)
Prince of Prussia, soldier and composer
- Louis Maria
Prince of Bourbon,Two Sicilies, Count of Trani; son of Ferdinand II
- Louis Ferdinand Oskar Christian
Prince of Prussia
- Louis Charles (Friedrich Ludwig Karl)
Prince of Prussia; son of Frederick William II
- Louis (Aloys Franz de Paula Maria)
Prince of Liechtenstein
- Louis (Luigi Carlo Maria Giuseppe)
Prince of Bourbon,Two Sicilies, Count of Aquila
- Louis
Victor,Pierre,Raymond, French physicist
- Louis Eugène Félix Néel
French physicist
- Louis Ignarro
American pharmacologist
- Louis Jolliet
French explorer
- Louis H. O. Ch. Michel
Belgian politician
- Louis Van Lint
Belgian painter
- Louis "Lou" Boudreau
American baseball player
- Louis Clark "Lou" Brock
American baseball player
- Louis Eugene Bullard
American NFL football player
- Louis
Joseph Chevrolet, French,American racing driver and automaker
- Louis Alfred "Pinky" Clarke
American Olympic runner
- Aloysius Paulus Maria "Louis" van Gaal
Dutch football manager
- Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
British paleontologist
- Louis "Kid" Kaplan
Ukrainian boxer
- Louis Pilot
Luxembourgian footballer
- Louis Herman "Red" Klotz
American basketball player
- Louis Rubenstein
Canadian figure skater
- Louis Laurent Saha
French footballer
- Louis Hunter
Australian actor
- Louis Hofmann
German actor
- Jean
Louis "Jack" Lebris de Kerouac, American novelist and poet
- Louis Vincent Gerstner Jr.
American former CEO of IBM
- Louis Marie Malle
French film director, screenwriter, and producer
- Louis Xavier Marie Guillaume
Prince of Luxembourg
- Louis Gibson
son of American actor Mel Gibson
- Louis Hugo Sage Jackson
son of YouTubers Ash and James Jackson
- Louis Bardo Bullock
son of American actress Sandra Bullock
- Louis (b. 2010)
Duke of Burgundy, son of Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou; twin of brother Alphonse, Duke of Berry
- Louis Augustus Walton (b. 2013)
son of actors Majandra Delfino and David Walton
- Louis Arthur Charles of Cambridge (b. 2018)
Prince of the United Kingdom; son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
- Louis Jean-Pierre Valentin Garrel
French actor and director, son of director Philippe Garrel and actress Brigitte Sy
- Louis "Lou" Jude Ferrigno Jr.
American actor
Louis in pop culture
- Louis de Pointe du Lac
main character in Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire"
- Louis Weasley
son of Bill and Fleur Weasley in the "Harry Potter" series, brother of Dominique and Victoire Weasley
- Louis Anthony Stevens
character on TV's "Even Stevens"
- Louis Marlowe Litt
character on TV's "Suits"
- Louis "Lou" Vartann
character on TV's "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation"
- Dom Louis
character in "Dom Juan" by Moliere
- Louis
swan in "The Trumpet of the Swan" by E.B. White
- "Louis
" graphic novel series by metaphrog
- Louis
character in video game "Left 4 Dead"
- Louis the Yard Teacher
character in "Sideways Stories from Wayside School" by Louis Sachar, based on the author
- Louis the Alligator
character in Disney's "The Princess and the Frog"
- Louis Tully
character in the "Ghostbusters" movies
- Louis Gridley Wu
main character in the "Ringworld" series by Larry Niven
- Louis "Louie" Anderson
main character in "Life with Louie"
- Louis Drax
main character in "The 9th Life of Louis Drax"
- Louis "Louie" Duck
character in "DuckTales"
- Captain Louis Renault
character in the film "Casablanca"
- Louis XIV
American rock band
- St. Louis
Missouri, USA
- Louis Osmond
character from Netflix's "Greenhouse Academy"