Louise
See also: louise
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /luːˈiːz/, /ləˈwiːz/
- Rhymes: -iːz
Proper noun
Louise
- A female given name.
- 1890 Arthur Weir, John Arthur Lockhart: The Romance of Sir Richard. Published by William Drysdale&Co. page 83:
- Louise, thy stately name sounds in my ear / Like a sea wave, that gathering, hill on hill, / Upon the blue horizon, smooth and still, / Sweeps to the shore
- 1957 Ed McBain, The Con Man, Armchair Detective Library (1991), →ISBN, page 47:
- That's what I baptized her. Mary Louise. Everybody else called her just plain Mary, but that wasn't the way I intended it. I intended it Mary Louise. That's a pretty name, isn't it? Mary Louise. Mary is too...plain?
- 1991 Emily Ellison, The Picture Makers, G.K.Hall, →ISBN, page 111:
- I've always thought I was too large for a soft, musical name like Louise, too untidy.
- 1890 Arthur Weir, John Arthur Lockhart: The Romance of Sir Richard. Published by William Drysdale&Co. page 83:
- a municipality in Manitoba, Canada.
Usage notes
Used in English since the seventeenth century, more in the U.K. than in the U.S.A. A common middle name today.
Translations
feminine form of Louis
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lwiz/
German
Etymology
As given below.
Swedish
Related terms
References
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN:52 540 females with the given name Louise living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on May 19th, 2011.
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