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Baby name
Louise
Girl
Origin of the name
Louise is the feminine of Louis. It goes back to the Frankish hlod, “fame,” and wig, “battle”: “famous in battle.”
Comeback name
336,466births since 1880
1920sgeneration
No. 22rank at its peak, in 1921
Where babies named Louise are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Louise is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Louise is most common in South Carolina (2.7 times), Mississippi (2.2) and Alabama (2.2), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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