Louie

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Louie: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Louie: Recorded since 1988, its highest recorded position is #28, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

7registrars recorded it
95times a registrar ranked it
38years from first to last
#28highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Louie's record

England and Wales registered 1,516 births with the name in 2024, its largest count from any one registrar. Names by yearly birth count
Held at least one birth in every 2,000 for 21 years. Names by sustained share

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2018

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900
2005	#3970
2006	#5061
2010	#5707
2013	#4739
2017	#4063
2018	#4684

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 26 of the 38 years from 1988 to 2025.

In 2025: #45 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, #103 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #180 among boys in Norway.

Official data from 7 national registrars across 7 regions, 1988–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1988
First recorded at #319 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1988 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #28 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #45 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, in 2025.
New South Wales, Australia · Boys

Louie appears in 7 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 24,242 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1988.

Louie across 7 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Louie's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#319 (1988)	#103 (2025)	#103 (2025)	26 of 38	533 (1988–2025)	55 (2025)
England and Wales · Boys	#255 (1996)	#28 (2024)	#28 (2024)	29 of 29	24,242 (1996–2024)	1,516 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#243 (2001)	#74 (2024)	#74 (2024)	21 of 24	288 (2001–2024)	32 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#3900 (1999)	#3900 (1999)	#4684 (2018)	7 of 20	26 (1999–2018)	5 (2017)
New Zealand · Boys	#86 (2018)	#37 (2023)	#37 (2023)	6 of 6	449 (2018–2023)	90 (2023)
Norway · Boys	#152 (2023)	#152 (2023)	#180 (2025)	3 of 3	93 (2023–2025)	36 (2023)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#65 (2024)	#45 (2025)	#45 (2025)	2 of 2	267 (2024–2025)	150 (2025)

Louie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Louie in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	743	4 of 10	186
2000s	5,395	10 of 10	540
2010s	11,018	10 of 10	1,102
2020sbusiest	7,086	5 of 10	1,417

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 1,417 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2015 and 2016, when recorded births rose by 378, from 1,002 to 1,380.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Louie appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 7 regions, from 1988 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #28 in England and Wales in 2024.

Louie's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#28	1,516	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#36	1,421	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#40	1,396	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#41	1,461	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#46	1,292	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#42	1,446	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#48	1,319	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#46	1,365	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#47	1,380	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#63	1,002	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#67	1,015	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#71	868	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#79	832	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#74	887	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#74	904	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#84	757	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#93	729	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#96	668	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#102	579	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#107	534	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#91	637	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#111	470	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#116	415	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#127	338	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#141	268	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#144	240	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#152	230	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#206	161	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#255	112	High	Verified
2025	New South Wales, Australia	male	#45	150	Insufficient	Not yet available
2024	New South Wales, Australia	male	#65	117	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New Zealand	male	#37	90	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	male	#50	82	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	male	#67	72	High	Verified
2020	New Zealand	male	#65	71	High	Verified
2019	New Zealand	male	#61	78	High	Verified
2018	New Zealand	male	#86	56	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#74	32	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#95	26	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#98	26	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#95	29	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#131	20	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#133	19	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#171	14	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#147	18	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#162	16	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#142	19	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#202	11	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#219	9	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#231	8	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#204	10	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#248	7	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#247	7	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#357	3	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#282	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#307	3	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	male	#281	3	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	male	#243	4	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#180	27	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#165	30	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#152	36	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#103	55	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#134	39	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#133	42	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#175	30	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#158	35	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#147	39	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#140	43	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#151	39	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#149	40	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#254	19	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#329	13	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#215	27	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#276	17	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#263	19	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#342	12	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#400	9	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#429	7	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	6	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#326	10	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#354	7	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#448	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#390	5	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#375	5	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#348	5	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#334	3	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	male	#319	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#45	99	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 7 registrars between 1988 and 2025, ranked in 32 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #28, first reached in 2024.

It held a top-100 place in 20 years, 19 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 1,516 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 36 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Loughlin · #288, 16y
Loui · #535, 29y
Louie-James · #1869, 11y
Louie-Jay · #2813, 13y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 7 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Annabelle · #29, 32y
Bella · #26, 30y
Luna · #30, 34y
Luka · #37, 32y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Caolan · #28, 41y
Bobby · #27, 41y
Kimberley · #27, 44y
Luna · #30, 34y

Louie was ranked #28 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Louie and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Louie without appearing here.

Louie moved ahead of

Geraldine Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4739 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #4684 and #5666.
Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4739 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #4684 and #5666.
Kim Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4063 and #3583 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #4684 and #5666.
Yvonne Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4063 and #2090 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #4684 and #5666.

Moved ahead of Louie

Mason Compare
In 2006 they stood at #354 and #493 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2007 that had become #326 and #241.
Alfie Compare
In 2002 they stood at #348 and #451 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2003 that had become #375 and #305.
Ollie Compare
In 2007 they stood at #326 and #342 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2008 that had become #472 and #412.
Daithi Compare
In 2004 they stood at #243 and #280 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2005 that had become #307 and #265.

Moved the opposite way to Louie

Adrian Compare
Between 1988 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Louie went from #319 to #103 while Adrian went from #68 to #348.
Daithi Compare
Between 1988 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Louie went from #319 to #103 while Daithi went from #254 to #509.
Denis Compare
Between 1988 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Louie went from #319 to #103 while Denis went from #71 to #232.
Edward Compare
Between 1988 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Louie went from #319 to #103 while Edward went from #50 to #125.

Moved the same way as Louie

Adam Compare
Between 1988 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Louie went from #319 to #103 and Adam from #55 to #20.
Alex Compare
Between 1988 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Louie went from #319 to #103 and Alex from #171 to #37.
Alexander Compare
Between 1988 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Louie went from #319 to #103 and Alexander from #106 to #55.
Ben Compare
Between 1988 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Louie went from #319 to #103 and Ben from #152 to #40.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 7 regions, from 1988 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #28 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Louie

Louie at a glance

What stands out in Louie's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Louie across 7 official records

Louie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Louie appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1980s

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Louie and the names beside it

Louie moved ahead of

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Louie at a glance

What stands out in Louie's record

Louie across 7 official records

Louie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Louie appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Louie

Louie and the names beside it

Louie moved ahead of

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