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Luisangel vs Luise

American parents have registered 1,389 Luisangels since 1880, against 586 Luises. Luisangel is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Luisangel against Luise, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Luisangel Luise

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 92 years in which either name was published, Luise for 51 years and Luisangel for 41 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Luisangel Luise
Total US births 1,389586
Most in one year 8427
Babies in 2025 13under 5
Estimated living today 1,400210
Median age today 1973
Peak year 20061937
Best rank 1,684th boys1,416th girls
Rank in 2025 6,446thunranked
First recorded 19841909
Girls / boys 0 / 1,389581 / 5

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Luises alive today are over 73; half the Luisangels are over 19. That is 54 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Luisangel and Luise.