Louisiana
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 12 babies a year in England and Wales.
Louisiana by the numbers
In 2025, 12 babies in England and Wales were named Louisiana. In the US, 6 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 11 babies in 1920, making it a 1920s name.
What we can tell you about Louisiana
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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Other names in the records within a letter or two of Louisiana. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
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