Meaning not yet researched.
Louella: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 146 in 2025. Its best rank was #238 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #238 in 1881; #1,475 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Louella in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,475 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #238.
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Louella: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 146 girls in 2025. Peak: #238 in 1881 · most girls in one year: 266 (1932).
In 2025, 146 US girls were named Louella, making it the 1,475th most common girls’ name of the year, down 6 places from #1,469 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 149 girls named Louella in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #238, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 266, in 1932. For comparison, it was #3,683 in 2015 and #661 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Louella in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 34 babies. In all, 13,958 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,457 babies named Louella.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 998 US girls were named Louella; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 149. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,009 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Louella ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #544 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Luella (32,621 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Louella in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 6 | #544 | — |
| Kentucky | 7 | #625 | — |
| Missouri | 8 | #697 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #777 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #867 | — |
| Alabama | 5 | #897 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #937 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #1,005 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,141 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,156 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,156 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,601 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,356 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,664 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 146 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 2024 | 149 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 2023 | 140 | #1,529 | — | — |
| 2022 | 120 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,200 | — | — |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,570 | — | — |
| 2019 | 81 | #2,263 | — | — |
| 2018 | 95 | #2,055 | — | — |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,763 | — | — |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,124 | — | — |
| 2015 | 42 | #3,683 | — | — |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,069 | — | — |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,390 | — | — |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,784 | — | — |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,476 | — | — |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,306 | — | — |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,819 | — | — |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,277 | — | — |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,987 | — | — |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,103 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,091 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,713 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,945 | — | — |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,221 | — | — |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,971 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,714 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,124 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,560 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,851 | — | — |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,932 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,274 | — | — |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,822 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,862 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,794 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,264 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,507 | — | — |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,208 | — | — |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,626 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,869 | — | — |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,402 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,045 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,397 | — | — |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,855 | — | — |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,649 | — | — |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,976 | — | — |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,006 | — | — |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,809 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,065 | — | — |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,852 | — | — |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,471 | — | — |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,727 | — | — |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,794 | — | — |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,914 | — | — |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,335 | — | — |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,281 | — | — |
| 1968 | 32 | #2,148 | — | — |
| 1967 | 22 | #2,679 | — | — |
| 1966 | 48 | #1,627 | — | — |
| 1965 | 40 | #1,823 | — | — |
| 1964 | 69 | #1,356 | — | — |
| 1963 | 65 | #1,382 | — | — |
| 1962 | 72 | #1,309 | — | — |
| 1961 | 71 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 1960 | 57 | #1,464 | — | — |
| 1959 | 76 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1958 | 85 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1957 | 97 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1956 | 87 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1955 | 101 | #996 | — | — |
| 1954 | 139 | #797 | — | — |
| 1953 | 116 | #872 | — | — |
| 1952 | 123 | #824 | — | — |
| 1951 | 159 | #696 | — | — |
| 1950 | 167 | #661 | — | — |
| 1949 | 185 | #606 | — | — |
| 1948 | 214 | #572 | — | — |
| 1947 | 205 | #598 | — | — |
| 1946 | 174 | #598 | — | — |
| 1945 | 185 | #536 | — | — |
| 1944 | 193 | #520 | — | — |
| 1943 | 188 | #551 | — | — |
| 1942 | 197 | #528 | — | — |
| 1941 | 232 | #454 | — | — |
| 1940 | 200 | #479 | — | — |
| 1939 | 232 | #444 | — | — |
| 1938 | 242 | #431 | — | — |
| 1937 | 220 | #443 | — | — |
| 1936 | 230 | #427 | — | — |
| 1935 | 215 | #440 | — | — |
| 1934 | 256 | #410 | — | — |
| 1933 | 222 | #432 | — | — |
| 1932 | 266 | #403 | — | — |
| 1931 | 220 | #436 | — | — |
| 1930 | 259 | #406 | — | — |
| 1929 | 244 | #426 | — | — |
| 1928 | 255 | #424 | — | — |
| 1927 | 264 | #424 | — | — |
| 1926 | 265 | #419 | — | — |
| 1925 | 239 | #447 | — | — |
| 1924 | 238 | #452 | — | — |
| 1923 | 247 | #429 | — | — |
| 1922 | 233 | #447 | — | — |
| 1921 | 257 | #422 | — | — |
| 1920 | 215 | #461 | — | — |
| 1919 | 241 | #418 | — | — |
| 1918 | 251 | #414 | — | — |
| 1917 | 229 | #420 | — | — |
| 1916 | 235 | #408 | — | — |
| 1915 | 208 | #418 | — | — |
| 1914 | 156 | #437 | — | — |
| 1913 | 149 | #400 | — | — |
| 1912 | 130 | #407 | — | — |
| 1911 | 110 | #387 | — | — |
| 1910 | 117 | #364 | — | — |
| 1909 | 103 | #358 | — | — |
| 1908 | 81 | #406 | — | — |
| 1907 | 93 | #367 | — | — |
| 1906 | 71 | #406 | — | — |
| 1905 | 87 | #363 | — | — |
| 1904 | 77 | #375 | — | — |
| 1903 | 74 | #371 | — | — |
| 1902 | 80 | #358 | — | — |
| 1901 | 55 | #400 | — | — |
| 1900 | 111 | #321 | — | — |
| 1899 | 62 | #369 | — | — |
| 1898 | 65 | #386 | — | — |
| 1897 | 76 | #337 | — | — |
| 1896 | 79 | #327 | — | — |
| 1895 | 50 | #401 | — | — |
| 1894 | 53 | #389 | — | — |
| 1893 | 56 | #362 | — | — |
| 1892 | 57 | #350 | — | — |
| 1891 | 75 | #292 | — | — |
| 1890 | 65 | #312 | — | — |
| 1889 | 49 | #351 | — | — |
| 1888 | 50 | #342 | — | — |
| 1887 | 59 | #276 | — | — |
| 1886 | 66 | #256 | — | — |
| 1885 | 48 | #292 | — | — |
| 1884 | 52 | #272 | — | — |
| 1883 | 47 | #265 | — | — |
| 1882 | 51 | #242 | — | — |
| 1881 | 44 | #238 | — | — |
| 1880 | 34 | #268 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).