Louise

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

Female form of Louis ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

Loisa	♀
Louisa	♀
Louise	♀
Louiza	♀
Luisa	♀
Luise	♀

See also Isa, Lisa, Lissi, Loppa, Lou, Lovise, Lu

Combinations

For combinations see LU (name element)

Name Days

Denmark

31 October

Norway

25 August

Finland (Swedish Language)

25 August

Sweden

25 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1698 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[3]		23874	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[4]		15122	52540	5	7
Norway[5]		899	1279	0	0
Finland[6]		n.a.	2977	n.a	3
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[4][3][5][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

Sources: ^{[4] [3] [5] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi