Louis Pronunciation LOO -ee LOO -issFrench: [lwi] Gender Male Language(s) French and English Word/name French Meaning "Famed warrior" or "loot bringer" Derived Louise Related names Louie , Clovis , Lewis , Ludovico , Luigi , Luis , Ludvig , Ludwig , Lodewijk , Lodewyk , Alois See also Lothar Robert , name with a similar meaning
Louis is the French form of the Old Frankish given name Chlodowig and one of two English forms,[ 1] the other being Lewis ().
The name Louis (through the intermediate form Clovis ) derives from the Frankish name ᚺᛚᛟᛞᛟᚹᛁᚷ (in runic alphabet ) or *Hlōdowik or *Hlōdowig (in Latin alphabet ). Traditionally, this name is considered to be composed of two elements, deriving from both Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz ("loud, famous") and *wiganą ("to battle, to fight") respectively, resulting in the traditional practice of translating Clovis' name as meaning "famous warrior" or "famous in battle".[ 2]
However, scholars have pointed out that Gregory of Tours consequently transcribes the names of various Merovingian royal names containing the first element as chlodo- . The use of a close-mid back protruded vowel (o), rather than the expected close back rounded vowel (u) which Gregory does use in various other Germanic names (i.e. Fredegundis , Arnulfus , Gundobadus , etc.) opens up the possibility that the first element instead derives from Proto-Germanic *hlutą ("lot, share, portion"), giving the meaning of the name as "loot bringer" or "plunder (bringing) warrior". This hypothesis is supported by the fact that if the first element is taken to mean "famous", then the name of Chlodomer (one of Clovis' sons) would contain two elements (*hlūdaz and *mērijaz ) both meaning "famous", which would be highly uncommon within the typical Germanic name structure.[ 3] [ 4]
Afrikaans : Louis, Lodewyk, Ludwig
Arabic : لويس
Albanian : Luigj, Ludovik
Ancient Germanic: Chlodovech, Clodovicus, Ludovicus, Clovis, Hludowig
Armenian : Լուդովիկ (Loudovik )[ 5]
Basque : Aloxi, Koldobika, Luki , Koldo
Breton : Loeiz , Loïc
Bengali : লুইস, লুডউইগ , romanized : Luis/Luish, Luduig
Bulgarian : Людовик (Lyudovik )
Catalan : Lluís
Chinese Simplified : 路易 (Lùyì )
Chinese Traditional : 路易 (Lùyì )
Croatian : Alojzije, Ljudevit , Ludovik, Luj , Alojz
Czech : Ludvík , Alois , Luděk
Danish : Ludvig , Lodvig
Dutch : Lodewijk , Lode, Lodevicus, Loe, Louis, Lowie, Lowieke, Ludo, Ludovicus
English: Louis, Louie , Lou , Lewis , Lewes , Lewie, Lew, Lewy or Luey; Ludovic , Lodvig, Lodovig, Lutwidge
Esperanto : Ludoviko , Luĉjo
Faroese : Ludvík
French : Louis, Ludovic , Clovis
Galician : Lois , Luís
Georgian : ხლოდვიგი (Khlodvigi ), ლუდვიგი (ludvigi ), ლუდოვიკო(ludoviko ), ლუი (lui )
‹See Tfd› German : Ludwig , Alois , Aloysius , Lutz
Greek : Λουδοβίκος (Loudovíkos ), Λοΐζος(Loizos )
Hawaiian : Lui
Hindi : लुइस (Lu'is )
Hungarian : Lajos , Alajos
Irish : Alaois, Alabhaois, Laoiseach, Lughaidh
Indonesian : Aloysius, Louis, Ludowikus, Luis
Icelandic : Loðvík
Italian : Aloigi, Aloisi, Aloisio, Luigi , Lodovico , Ludovico , Alvise, Gigi, Gigio, Gigino, Ginetto, Gino, Luigino, Vico
Japanese : ルイ(Rui )
Korean : 루이 (Lui ), 루이스 (Luiseu )
Latin : Ludovicus , Aloysius
Latvian : Ludviķis , Ludis, Ludvigs, Luijs, Luiss, Luī, Aloizs, Aloiss
Lithuanian : Liudvikas , Aloyzas, Liudas
Macedonian : Лудвиг (Ludvig ), Луј (Luj ), Људевит (Ljudevit )
Medieval Occitan: Aloys, Aloysius
Norwegian : Ludvig , Lodve
Occitan: Loís
Persian : لویی
Polish : Ludwik , Alojzy
Portuguese : Luís , Aloísio , Aluísio, Ludovico (Luiz is an archaic form), Luisinho
Provençal : Louïs, Louei, Louvis
Punjabi : ਲੂਯਿਸ (Lūyis )
Romanian : Aloisiu, Ludovic
‹See Tfd› Russian : Людовик (Lyudovik )
Scottish Gaelic : Luthais
Sicilian : Luiggi, Ludovicu
Serbian : Луј (Luj ), Људевит (Ljudevit )
Slovak : Ľudovít , Alojz
Slovene : Alojz , Lojze , Ljudevit , Luj , Alojzij, Ludvik
Spanish : Luis , Ludovico
Swedish : Ludvig , Love , Ludde
Tamil : லூயிஸ் (Lūyis )
Telugu : లూయిస్ (Lūyis )
Thai : หลุยส์ (H̄luys̄̒ )
Ukrainian : Людовик (Lyudovyk )
Welsh : Lewis, Lewys
Arabic: لويز
Belarusian: Луіза (Luiza)
Chinese Simplified: 路易丝 (Lùyìsī)
Chinese Traditional: 路易絲 (Lùyìsī)
Croatian: Alojzija
Danish: Louise
Dutch: Louisa, Louise, Ludovica
English: Louise, Louisa, Lou, Louella, Lula, Luella, Lulu
Estonian: Loviise
Finnish: Loviisa
French: Lou, Louise, Louisette
German: Aloisia, Louisa, Luise, Lulu, Luisa
Greek: Λουίζα (Louíza)
Gujarati: લુઇસ (Lu'isa)
Hebrew: לואיז
Hindi: लुइस (Lu'isa)
Hungarian: Lujza
Italian: Lodovica, Ludovica, Luigia, Luisa, Gigia, Gina, Ginetta, Luigina, Luisella
Japanese: ルイーザ (Ruīza), ルイ (Rui)
Kannada: ಲೂಯಿಸ್ (Lūyis)
Korean: 루이사 (Luisa)
Lithuanian: Liudvika
Maori: Ruiha
Macedonian: Лујза (Lujza), Лојза (Lojza)
Mongolian: Луиза (Luiza)
Nepali: लुइस (Lu'isa)
Norwegian: Lovise
Persian: لوئیس
Polish: Ludwika, Luiza
Portuguese: Luísa, Luiza
Romanian: Luiza
Serbian: Луиз (Luiz)
Slovak: Alojzia
Slovene: Alojzija
Spanish: Luisa, Luisana, Luisel, Luisina, Luisita
Swedish: Lovisa, Lova
Tamil: லூயிஸ் (Lūyis)
Telugu: లూయిస్ ( Lūyis)
Thai: หลุยส์ (H̄luys̄̒)
Ukrainian: Луїза (Luyiza)
Urdu: لوئیس
Arts and entertainment [ edit ]
Louis (singer) (1952–2011), Serbian singer
Louis Akin (1868–1913), American painter and illustrator
Lou Albano (1933–2009), Italian wrestler, manager and actor
Louie Anderson (1953–2022), American stand-up comedian and actor
Louis Armstrong (1901–1971), American jazz musician
Louis C.K. (born 1967), American comedian
Louis Cachet (born 1973), Norwegian musician
Louis Calabro (1926–1991), Italian American orchestral composer
Louis Calhern (1895–1956), American actor
Louis Cheung (born 1980), Hong Kong singer, songwriter, and actor
Louis Clark (1947–2021), English musical arranger and keyboard player
Louis Cole (musician) , American musician
Lou Costello (1906–1959), American comedian
Louis Daguerre (1787–1851), French artist and photographer
Louis Deland (1772–1823), Swedish ballet dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and ballet master
Lou Dobbs (born 1945), CNN anchor
Lou Ferrigno (born 1951), American bodybuilder and actor
Louis Edwin Fry Sr. (1903–2000), American architect and professor
Louis Gallodier (1734–1803), ballet master and choreographer
Louis Gossett Jr. (born 1936), American actor
Louis Hughes (1832–1913), American author
Louis Johnson (bassist) (1955–2015), American bass player and singer, member of The Brothers Johnson
Louis Jordan (1908–1975), pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician and songwriter
Louis Jourdan (1921–2015), French actor
Louis Jouvet (1887–1951), French actor and director
Louis I. Kahn (1901–1974), American architect
Louis Koo (born 1970), Hong Kong actor, singer and film producer
Louis L'Amour (1908–1988), American author of Western fiction
Louis Logic , American underground rapper
Louis Masreliez (1748–1810), French-born Swedish painter and interior designer
Louis Prima (1910–1978), Italian American jazz and swing musician and trumpeter
Louis Rukeyser (1933–2006), American economic commentator
Lou Diamond Phillips (born 1962), American actor
Lou Rawls (1933–2006), American musician
Lou Reed (1942–2013), American musician
Louis Sachar (born 1954), American author of children's books
Louis Spohr (1784–1859), German composer
Louis Sullivan (1856–1924), American architect
Louis Theroux (born 1970), British television broadcaster
Louis Tomlinson (born 1991), English pop singer; one-fifth of English-Irish boy band One Direction. (Current solo artist)
Louis Van Lint (1909–1986), Belgian artist
Louis Vuitton (designer) (1821–1892), French fashion designer
Louis Wain (1860–1936), British artist who drew cats
Louis Walsh (born 1952), Irish entertainment manager
Louis Yuen (born 1967), Hong Kong actor
Louis A. Bloom (1900–1988), Pennsylvania State Representative and Judge
Louis Borno , President of Haiti during United States occupation of Haiti
Louis Brandeis (1856–1941), American Supreme Court justice and Zionist leader
Louis Philippe de Bombelles , Austrian count and diplomat
Louis Conradt , politician from Texas, investigated by To Catch a Predator
Louis DeJoy (born 1957), American businessman and current postmaster general of the United States
Louis René Édouard, cardinal de Rohan (1734–1803), French religious leader and politician
Louis Farrakhan (born 1933), Afro-American social leader
Louis De Geer (1818–1896), Sweden's first prime minister; baron, statesman and writer
Gerhard Louis De Geer , known as Louis De Geer (1854–1935), Swedish prime minister
Louis "Louie" Gohmert (born 1953), Texas politician and U.S. Congressman
Louis Lucien Hunter , Sri Lankan civil servant and politician
Louis Alphonse Koyagialo , Prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Louis St. Laurent (1882–1973), Canadian politician who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada
Louis Lingg (1864–1887), German anarchist arrested after Haymarket Square bombing
Louis Michel (born 1947), Belgian politician
Louis Riel (1844–1885), Canadian politician, a founder of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis
Louis Eugène Roy (1861–1939), President of Haiti
Louis Waldman (1892–1982), Ukrainian-American lawyer and New York City politician
Louis L. Winston (1784–1824), justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
Holy Roman Emperors and Kings of Germany [ edit ]
Louis the Pious , Emperor and King of the Franks from 814 to his death
Louis the Stammerer , the eldest son of Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orléans
Louis III of France , king of Western Francia
Louis IV of France , king of France from 936 to 954
Louis V of France , son of the Frankish King Lothair and his wife Emma
Louis VI of France , King of France from 1108 to 1137
Louis VII of France , King of France from 1137 to 1180
Louis VIII of France , King of France from 1223 to 1226
Louis IX of France , King of France from 1226 to 1270
Louis X of France , King of France from 1314 to 1316
Louis XI of France , King of France from 1461 to 1483
Louis XII of France , King of France from 1498 to 1515
Louis XIII of France , King of France and Navarre from 1610 to 1643
Louis XIV of France , King of France and Navarre from 1643 to 1715
Louis XV of France , King of France and Navarre from 1715 to 1774
Louis XVI of France , King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791
Louis XVII of France , the son of King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette
Louis XVIII of France , King of France and Navarre from 1815 to 1824
Louis XIX of France , King of France and Navarre for twenty minutes in 1830 before his abdication
Louis Philippe I , King of the French from 1830 to 1848
Other French royalty [ edit ]
Louis (1309–1328), Count of Chartres
Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (1692–1740), "Louis Henri Joseph," "Louis IV," Prince de Condé
Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti (1661–1685), "Louis Armand de Bourbon," Prince of Conti
Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti (1695–1727), "Louis Armand de Bourbon," Prince of Conti
Louis V, Elector Palatine (1478–1544), "Ludwig V. von der Pfalz" Count Palatine of the Rhine
Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (1781–1789), "Louis Joseph Xavier François"
Louis I Bonaparte, King of Holland from 1806 to 1810
Louis II Bonaparte, King of Holland in 1810, also Grand Duke of Berg
Louis the Great , (Louis I of Hungary) Apostolic King of Hungary, Dalmatia, Croatia, Rama, Serbia, Galicia, Lodomeria, Jerusalem and Sicily from 1342, King of Poland from 1370
Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia , King of Bohemia and Hungary from 1516 to 1526
Louis I of Spain , the eldest son of Philip V of Spain by his first Queen consort Maria Louisa of Savoy
Princes of the United Kingdom [ edit ]
Prince Louis of Wales (born 2018), son of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales, grandson of King Charles III
Dukes and Kings of Bavaria [ edit ]
Louis I, Duke of Bavaria
Louis II, Duke of Bavaria
Louis III, Duke of Bavaria
Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor , also Duke of Bavaria
Louis V, Duke of Bavaria , also Margrave of Brandenburg as Louis I
Louis VI, Duke of Bavaria , also Margrave of Brandenburg as Louis II
Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria
Louis VIII, Duke of Bavaria
Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria
Louis X, Duke of Bavaria
Louis I King of Bavaria from 1825 to 1848
Louis II King of Bavaria from 1864 to 1886, the Märchenkönig (Fairy tale king)
Louis III , Regent from 1912 to 1913, King from 1913 to 1918 (last king of Bavaria)
Louis , Grand Duke of Berg from 1809 to 1813, also King of Holland as Louis II
Grand-Dukes of Hesse [ edit ]
Duke of Württemberg[ edit ]
Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt [ edit ]
Science and innovation [ edit ]
Louis Blériot (1872–1936), French aviator and inventor
Louis Braille (1809–1852), inventor of braille
Louis de Broglie (1892–1987), French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Louis Ignarro (1941) American pharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Louis Leakey (1903–1972), British paleontologist
Louis Lliboutry (1922–2007), French-Chilean glaciologist
Louis Mink (1921–1983), American philosopher of history
Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), French microbiologist and chemist, discoverer of the principles of vaccination , microbial fermentation and pasteurization
Louis Le Prince (1841–disappeared 1890), French inventor, Father of Cinematography
Louis Schoonhoven (born 1931), Dutch entomologist
Louis Slotin (1910–1946), Canadian physicist and chemist
Louis Wirth (1897–1952), American sociologist
Louis Almond (born 1992), English footballer
Louis Babrow (1915–2004), South African rugby union player
Louis Baise (1927–2020), South African Olympic wrestler
Lou Boudreau (1917–2001), American, Hall of Fame baseball player and manager
Lou Brock (1939–2020), American baseball player
Louis Bullard (1956–2010), American football player
Louis Campbell (born 1979), American basketball player
Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941), racing driver and the founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company
Lou Creekmur (1927–2009), American football player and Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 1996
Louis Unser (1896–1979), American race car driver and Hillclimb racer
Louis Delétraz (born 1997), Swiss race car driver
Louis Clarke (1901–77), American Olympic track champion
Louis Ford (footballer) (1914–1980), Welsh footballer
Louis van Gaal (born 1951), Dutch footballer and manager
Lou Gehrig (1903–1941), American baseball player
Louis Jani (born 1957), Canadian judoka
Louis Kaplan (1901–1970), nicknamed "Kid Kaplan", Russian-born American world champion Hall of Fame featherweight boxer
Louis King (basketball) (born 1999), American basketball player
Louis Klotz (1921–2014), nicknamed "Red", American NBA basketball player and owner of the Washington Generals and New York Nationals
Louis Pilot (1940–2016), Luxembourgian footballer and manager
Louis Riddick (born 1969), American football broadcaster and former player
Louis Rubenstein (1861–1931), Canadian world champion Hall of Fame figure skater
Louis Saha (born 1978), French footballer
Lewis Hamilton (born 1985), English racing driver
Louis Smith (gymnast) (born 1989), English gymnast
Louis Edmund Blaze (1861–1951), Sri Lankan Burgher educationist, founder of Kingswood College, Kandy , Sri Lanka
Louis Botha (1862–1919), South African politician, first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, one of the principal commanders of the Second Boer War
Louis Brouillard (1921–2018), American Catholic priest
Louis Congo (c. 1725), emancipated slave, appointed public executioner of Louisiana
Louis Le Duff , French billionaire businessman
Louis Franchet d'Espèrey , French general during World War I
Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (born 1942), chairman and CEO of IBM
Louis Antoine Godey (1804–1878), American editor and publisher
Louis Jolliet (1645–1700), French explorer, one of the first Europeans to reach the northern part of the Mississippi River
Louis Kealoha , former Chief of the Honolulu Police Department and convicted felon
Louis-Frédéric Lescure (1904–1993), French industrialist
Louis Mountbatten (1900–1979), last Viceroy of India and first Governor-General of independent India, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II
Louis Palander (1842–1920], Swedish naval officer
Louis Pio (1841–1894), Danish political figure
Louis (parrot) , parrot from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, well-provided for by owner's will after her death in 1949
Louis H. Pollak (1922–2012), American district court judge and dean of Yale Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Louis Pope (b.1947), American businessman
Louis Ruquoy , Chief of Staff of the Belgian Army during the second part of the First World War
Louis Sabunji (1838–1931), Syriac Catholic priest and journalist
Louis B. Schwartz (1913–2003), American law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp (born 1994), heir apparent to earldom
Louis Vuitton (1821-1892), French fashion designer and businessman
Louis Zamperini (1917–2014), American World War II veteran, Christian evangelist and an Olympic distance runner, best known for being a Japanese POW survivor.
Louis Potgieter (1951-1991), German-South African lead singer
Fictional characters [ edit ]
Dr. Louis Faraday, a character in the 1986 American science fiction adventure movie Flight of the Navigator
Louis, a character in the American sitcom television series Kate & Allie
Louis, a protagonist of the Japanese manga series Beastars
Louis de Pointe du Lac , character in the Vampire Chronicles novels by Anne Rice
Louis the Alligator , a character from the animated film The Princess and the Frog
Louie Duck , Disney character
Louis Gara, a character in the 2013 American black comedy crime movie Life of Crime
Louis Huang , character played by Randall Park in Fresh Off the Boat
Louis Litt , character played by Rick Hoffman in Suits
Louis Michaelson, a character played by Fred Savage in the 1986 American fantasy drama film The Boy Who Could Fly
Louis Tully , character played by Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II
Louis Wu , character in the Ringworld books by Larry Niven
Louis, one of the protagonists of Left 4 Dead
Louis, a Knight from Fire Emblem: Engage