Louis
Louis is the 1,315th most common surname in the United States, shared by 26,229 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 11,400.
By the numbers
- People
- 26,229
- Rank
- 1,315th
- How common
- 1 in 11,400
- Per 100,000
- 8.8
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Louis described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Louis
- Joe Louis (1914–1981)American boxer
- Spyridon Louis (1873–1940)Greek athlete
- Louis, Grand Condé (1621–1686)Prince of the Condé branch of the House of Bourbon, French general and famous military leader
- Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1868–1937)German aristocrat
- Louis, Prince of Condé (1530–1569)French general, Huguenot leader and founder of the House of Bourbon-Condé
- Édouard Louis (born 1992)French writer
- Séraphine Louis (1864–1942)French naive-style painter
- Martin St. Louis (born 1975)Canadian ice hockey player and coach
People named Louis with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Louis
Also a first name
Louis has been given to 409,317 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1921. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.