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Lou name image The name Lou is a diminutive form of Louise.  The table below indicates the number of times the name Lou has been given to baby girls in recent years.  The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.  The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years. 

Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Lou
Use of the Name Lou
for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years50 Years25 Years10 Years5 Years2 Years1 Year
32,6748,06200000
The table below indicates the number of times the name Lou has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004.  Lou last appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1971, the last year shown on the table.  A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Lou
 Used as a Girl NameUsed as a Boy Name
YearRankCountRankCount
188012513149214
188113811445215
188213713162710
188313614257811
188414514664410
188515813553713
18861781296749
188716714761510
188817316967810
188921012045417
18902101327109
18912311097418
18922221377789
189322313768310
189425211861512
18952531257749
189624713075910
189726711460113
189823615672610
189925312556913
190027514072013
1901304969067
1902287120  
190326513472311
1904300116  
190527514468813
1906334100  
190731312479712
190829214770015
1909308139  
191031614572318
1911317153  
191231421297922
1913341199  
191434922789538
1915354285  
1916351308  
191733933699044
1918337368  
1919363312  
1920357336  
1921376321  
1922348349  
1923356345  
1924351378  
1925338393  
1926323421  
1927304488  
1928322423  
1929307476  
1930306465  
1931291460  
193226954398345
1933265533  
1934263557  
1935269522  
1936271504  
1937269538  
1938274534  
193927950090448
1940281497  
1941287505  
194229353697747
1943330458  
1944315459  
194534339893148
1946344476  
194735650896155
1948378440  
1949375439  
1950395418  
195139143995554
1952345573  
19532081,435  
19542041,493  
19552311,230  
19562591,062  
195730988189672
195831585192767
1959358706  
196038859395963
1961447474  
1962488396  
1963496382  
1964599277  
1965657224  
1966721187  
1967754171  
1968771169  
1969798167  
1970850158  
1971955134  
Totals:  32,674 914

During the last 125 years, parents have used Lou as a girl's name about 97% of the time and less frequently (about 2% of the time) as a boy's name.  Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Lou appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 92 times during the last 125 years.


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