Louise
See also: louise
English edit
Etymology edit
From French Louise, the feminine form of Louis.
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Louise
- A female given name from French.
- 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, published 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 of Manitoba, Canada.
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Used in English since the seventeenth century, more in the UK than in the US. A common middle name today.
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feminine form of Louis
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Danish edit
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Louise
- a female given name
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- [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 51 558 females with the given name Louise have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1980s. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.
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Louise
- a female given name
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Louise f
- a female given name, feminine form of Louis
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German edit
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- Rhymes: -iːzə
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Louise f
- a female given name from French Louise, variant of Luise
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Louise
- a female given name
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From French Louise. First recorded in Sweden in 1698.
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Louise c (genitive Louises)
- a female given name
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- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- [2] 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.