Luisa

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Louisa in NL Netherlands, SE Sweden, GB United Kingdom and 7 more, לואיזה in IL Israel and Louise in GR Greece.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Luisa is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name100K records spelled Luisa5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Italy, Bolivia

  Also written Luísa, Luis-A, Luiśa, Luïsa

• Catalan given name40K records spelled Luisa2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Argentina

  Also written Luísa

• Lao given name14K records spelled Luisa21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, Peru, Chile, United States

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Lüisä, Lüïsä, L'Uisa, Lüisa, Luïsa

• Russian given name14K records spelled Luisa126 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Russian, Polish, Uzbek

  Also written Луиза, Luiza, Луїза, Луіза, Louise

75 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Luisa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Spanish, a female given name, equivalent to English Louise

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, redução coloquial de Aluiso, na forma feminina

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In Swedish, Luisa (Luiza) är spanska och portugisiska former av → Louisa.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Italian, Variante di Aloisi

  as a name·Dizionario dei cognomi italiani

• Guerriera famosa

  as a name·Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 143 years between 1882–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Luisa de Guzmánb. 1613ESDuchess of Braganza; Queen consort of Portugal (1613-1666)
• Princess Isabella of Parmab. 1741ESnot in their usual nameArchduchess of Austria
• Maria Luisa of Parmab. 1751ESQueen consort of Spain (1751-1819)
• Isabel II de Españab. 1830ESnot in their usual nameQueen of Spain from 1833 to 1868
• Mercedes of Orléansb. 1860ESnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Spain
• Elsa Schiaparellib. 1890ITnot in their usual nameItalian fashion designer and couturier (1890–1973)
• Rosa DeLaurob. 1943USnot in their usual nameU.S. Representative from Connecticut
• Luísa Diogob. 1958MZMozambican politician (1958–2026)
• Julianna Marguliesb. 1966USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1966)
• Luísa Sobralb. 1987PTPortuguese singer, writer and songwriter

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,366 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Luisa?

We estimate roughly 832 thousand people bear Luisa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Luisa have the most bearers?

Luisa is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled luisa.

Where is Luisa most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Luisa is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 181 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

How common is Luisa compared with other names?

In Argentina, Luisa is the 161st most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Luisa a male or female name?

Luisa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Luisa mean?

Recorded meaning: Italian, Spanish; feminine form of Louis.