Luisa
Luisa reached its high-water mark in 2022 at number 869, and has been recorded 14,405 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 902nd. About 12,000 Luisas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Luisa boys named Luisa
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 14,405
- Estimated living today
- 12,000
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 2022
- Best rank
- 869th
- Rank in 2025
- 902nd
- First recorded
- 1882
- Girls / boys
- 14,372 / 33
How old the living Luisas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 14,405 babies given the name since 1882, about 12,000 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 4,200 of them are children and 980 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Luisas
- Luísa Diogo (1958–2026)Mozambican politician
- Maria Luisa of Parma (1751–1819)Queen consort of Spain
- Luisa Neubauer (born 1996)German climate activist
- Luisa Fernanda of Spain, Duchess of Montpensier (1832–1897)Infanta of Spain
- Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici (1667–1743)Wife of Johann Wilhelm Palatine Elector
- Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily (1773–1802)Princess of Naples and Sicily
- Luisa de Guzmán (1613–1666)Duchess of Braganza; Queen consort of Portugal
- Princess Luisa Carlotta of the Two Sicilies (1804–1844)second child of King Francis I and María Isabella of Spain
People named Luisa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Luisa is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Luisa is most concentrated in Texas (3.9×), Arizona (2.8×), California (2.7×), New York (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2022
The most popular girls’ names the year Luisa peaked:
Luisa elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Luisa | 6,112 | — |
| Austria girls | Luisa | 5,390 | 15th |
| France girls | Luisa | 2,370 | 635th |
| Switzerland girls | Luisa +1 spelling | 2,317 | 48th |
| England and Wales girls | Luisa | 1,051 | 744th |
| Belgium girls | Luisa | 400 | 416th |
| Scotland girls | Luisa | 196 | 333rd |
| Poland girls | Luisa | 155 birth registrations | 288th |
| Ireland girls | Luisa +1 spelling | 65 | 436th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Luisa | 6 | 446th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Luisa: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Luisa | 2,152 | 0.173% | 37th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Luísa | 23 | 0.002% | 941st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Luisa | 87 | 0.020% | 273rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Luísa | 16 | 0.004% | 502nd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Luisa | 30 | 0.046% | 83rd |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Luisa | 9 | 0.242% | 1st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Luisa is most concentrated in Uri, where 0.39% of children were given it – 32 of them.
Luisa: rank by region
In 2025, Luisa was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Luisa | 836 | 5 |
| Wallonia | Luisa | 210 | 13 |
In 2015, Luisa was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Luisa | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, Luisa was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pomorskie | Luisa | 209 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Luisa appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (153rd) and Province of Liège (157th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Luisa by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 454 | 34th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Luisa among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Luisa +1 spelling | 62 | 180 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Luisa lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 39,170 women called Luisa were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaén | Luisa | 1,599 | 5.122 | 39 |
| Badajoz | Luisa | 1,495 | 4.437 | 43 |
| Ciudad Real | Luisa | 867 | 3.477 | 67 |
| Melilla | Luisa | 129 | 2.979 | 68 |
| Ourense | Luisa | 464 | 2.925 | 76 |
| Cádiz | Luisa | 1,727 | 2.695 | 84 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Luisa against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.