Louis (given name)

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Louis
Louis XIV, King of France (1643–1715)
Pronunciation/ˈluːi/ LOO-ee
/ˈluːɪs/ LOO-iss
French: [lwi]
GenderMale
Language(s)French and English
Origin
Word/nameFrench
Meaning"Famed warrior" or "loot bringer"
Other names
DerivedLouise
Related namesLouie, Clovis, Lewis, Ludovico, Luigi, Luis, Ludvig, Ludwig, Lodewijk, Lodewyk, Alois
See alsoLothar
Robert, name with a similar meaning
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Louis".

Louis is the

Old Frankish given name Chlodowig and one of two English forms,[1] the other being Lewis (/ˈluːɪs/
).

Etymology

The name Louis (through the intermediate form

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

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]

Variant forms

Feminine variants

  • 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

Politics

Royalty

See also: King Louis (disambiguation)

Holy Roman Emperors and Kings of Germany

  • Louis the Pious, Emperor and King of the Franks from 814 to his death.
  • Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor
    , eldest son of the emperor Lothair I
  • Louis III, Holy Roman Emperor
    , maternal grandson of the emperor Louis II
  • Louis the German (Louis II), the third son of the emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife
  • Louis the Child (Louis III), the last true Carolingian ruler of East Francia
  • Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Kings of France

  • 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

  • Louis (1309–1328), Count of Chartres

Kings of Etruria

Kings of Holland

  • Louis I Bonaparte, King of Holland from 1806 to 1810
  • Louis II Bonaparte, King of Holland in 1810, also Grand Duke of Berg

Kings of Hungary

  • 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

King of Portugal

  • Louis I of Portugal
    (1838–1889), succeeded to his older brother Peter V in 1861

King of Spain

  • Louis I of Spain, the eldest son of Philip V of Spain by his first Queen consort Maria Louisa of Savoy

Princes of Monaco

Princes of the United Kingdom

  • 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

Grand-Duke of Berg

  • Louis, Grand Duke of Berg from 1809 to 1813, also King of Holland as Louis II

Grand-Dukes of Hesse

Duke of Savoy

Duke of Württemberg

Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

Science and innovation

Sports

Others

  • 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 Zamperini (1917–2014), American World War II veteran, Christian evangelist and an Olympic distance runner, best known for being a Japanese POW survivor.

Fictional characters

  • 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

See also

References

  1. ^ Campbell, Mike. "Meaning, origin and history of the name Louis". Behind the Name.
  2. ^ Campbell, Mike. "Meaning, origin and history of the name Ludwig". Behind the Name.
  3. ^ Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Bern.
  4. ^ Nederlandse Voornamenbank, Lodewijk, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Meertens Institute.
  5. ^ M. Petrossian (ed.). New Dictionary Armenian-English. Librairie de Beyrouth.
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