Meaning not yet researched.
Luisa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 294 in 2025. Its best rank was #715 in 1882.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #715 in 1882; #903 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Luisa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#903 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1882, at #715.
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Luisa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 294 girls in 2025. Peak: #715 in 1882 · most girls in one year: 319 (2022).
In 2025, 294 US girls were named Luisa, making it the 903rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 37 places from #866 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 313 girls named Luisa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #715, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 319, in 2022. For comparison, it was #1,134 in 2015 and #1,159 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Luisa in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 8 babies. In all, 14,405 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,246 babies named Luisa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,643 US girls were named Luisa; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 319. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,467 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Luisa ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #358 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Louise (338,662 babies since 1880) and Louisa (21,937 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 Italian and Spanish. 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 Luisa 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 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 5 | #358 | — |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #463 | #548 |
| New York | 29 | #579 | #911 |
| Arizona | 11 | #611 | #1,041 |
| Texas | 51 | #620 | #625 |
| Utah | 6 | #673 | — |
| Oregon | 5 | #694 | — |
| California | 44 | #709 | #861 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #794 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #800 | — |
| Florida | 20 | #818 | #968 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #869 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,081 | #1,384 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,107 | #1,018 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,128 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,159 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,174 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,532 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 294 | #903 | — | — |
| 2024 | 313 | #866 | — | — |
| 2023 | 276 | #951 | — | — |
| 2022 | 319 | #873 | — | — |
| 2021 | 262 | #988 | — | — |
| 2020 | 256 | #997 | — | — |
| 2019 | 262 | #985 | — | — |
| 2018 | 222 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 2017 | 228 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 2016 | 211 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 2015 | 224 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 2014 | 181 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 2013 | 205 | #1,175 | — | — |
| 2012 | 180 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 2011 | 224 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 2010 | 209 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 2009 | 210 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 2008 | 198 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 2007 | 230 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 2006 | 260 | #998 | — | — |
| 2005 | 226 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 2004 | 234 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 2003 | 223 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 2002 | 236 | #948 | — | — |
| 2001 | 211 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 2000 | 218 | #973 | — | — |
| 1999 | 249 | #866 | — | — |
| 1998 | 195 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 1997 | 169 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 1996 | 189 | #997 | — | — |
| 1995 | 189 | #996 | — | — |
| 1994 | 178 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 1993 | 180 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1992 | 188 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1991 | 181 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1990 | 193 | #970 | 8 | #6,189 |
| 1989 | 180 | #970 | — | — |
| 1988 | 162 | #1,010 | 8 | #5,520 |
| 1987 | 159 | #990 | — | — |
| 1986 | 124 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1985 | 125 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 1984 | 171 | #881 | — | — |
| 1983 | 138 | #1,021 | 5 | #6,902 |
| 1982 | 152 | #975 | — | — |
| 1981 | 139 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1980 | 120 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1979 | 147 | #978 | — | — |
| 1978 | 120 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 1977 | 108 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 1976 | 124 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1975 | 116 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 1974 | 81 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 1973 | 111 | #1,050 | 6 | #4,862 |
| 1972 | 98 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 1971 | 101 | #1,155 | 6 | #4,721 |
| 1970 | 125 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1969 | 99 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1968 | 100 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 1967 | 97 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1966 | 105 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1965 | 109 | #998 | — | — |
| 1964 | 94 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 1963 | 84 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 1962 | 97 | #1,108 | — | — |
| 1961 | 102 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1960 | 87 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1959 | 96 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1958 | 86 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1957 | 73 | #1,234 | — | — |
| 1956 | 71 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1955 | 73 | #1,173 | — | — |
| 1954 | 64 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1953 | 59 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 1952 | 63 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 1951 | 66 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1950 | 64 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1949 | 63 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1948 | 45 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1947 | 45 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 1946 | 41 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 1945 | 32 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1944 | 39 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,517 | — | — |
| 1941 | 40 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1940 | 34 | #1,285 | — | — |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1937 | 31 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1936 | 37 | #1,175 | — | — |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 1934 | 33 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 1933 | 37 | #1,170 | — | — |
| 1932 | 41 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1931 | 43 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1930 | 56 | #988 | — | — |
| 1929 | 44 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 1928 | 69 | #884 | — | — |
| 1927 | 73 | #868 | — | — |
| 1926 | 63 | #948 | — | — |
| 1925 | 55 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1924 | 82 | #826 | — | — |
| 1923 | 59 | #972 | — | — |
| 1922 | 59 | #973 | — | — |
| 1921 | 72 | #873 | — | — |
| 1920 | 55 | #999 | — | — |
| 1919 | 46 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1918 | 58 | #942 | — | — |
| 1917 | 43 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 1916 | 40 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1915 | 32 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 1914 | 33 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1913 | 29 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1912 | 27 | #993 | — | — |
| 1911 | 34 | #750 | — | — |
| 1910 | 24 | #887 | — | — |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 1908 | 22 | #844 | — | — |
| 1907 | 13 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 1906 | 16 | #945 | — | — |
| 1905 | 18 | #889 | — | — |
| 1904 | 16 | #925 | — | — |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1902 | 16 | #891 | — | — |
| 1901 | 13 | #946 | — | — |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1899 | 12 | #957 | — | — |
| 1898 | 14 | #946 | — | — |
| 1897 | 12 | #959 | — | — |
| 1896 | 11 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1894 | 12 | #927 | — | — |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 1892 | 12 | #885 | — | — |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1890 | 10 | #912 | — | — |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1887 | 9 | #829 | — | — |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 1885 | 6 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1883 | 5 | #993 | — | — |
| 1882 | 8 | #715 | — | — |
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).