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Lou vs Loueen

American parents have registered 38,198 Lous since 1880, against 22 Loueens. Lou is still ahead, with 146 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lou against Loueen, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lou Loueen

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Lou has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1937, when Lou had 565 and Loueen had 15.

Side by side

  Lou Loueen
Total US births 38,19822
Most in one year 1,54715
Babies in 2025 146under 5
Estimated living today 18,0008
Median age today 6988
Peak year 19541937
Best rank 204th girls2,101st girls
Rank in 2025 2,645thunranked
First recorded 18801937
Girls / boys 34,109 / 4,08922 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Loueens alive today are over 88; half the Lous are over 69. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lou and Loueen.