“fame” + “combat”
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/luˈi.zɐ/ · Portuguese (Brazil)
01 / Meaning & origin
Luísa is a feminine given name documented in Portuguese, Danish and Galician.
Separate records with matching spellings: Luisa (Danish, German), Lúísa (Icelandic)
No etymology is recorded in our sources for this spelling yet. The record exists because the name is documented in use; a meaning will be shown only once a cited source supports it.
02 / Across borders
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2 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.
4 of 6 countries
03 / By the numbers
Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.
2000–2025 Spelling: Luísa
Recorded category girls
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Source: Federal Statistical Office · Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2001 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2002 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2003 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2004 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2005 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2006 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2007 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2008 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2009 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2010 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2011 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2012 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2013 | 1 | 1,617 | observed |
| 2014 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2015 | 1 | 1,674 | observed |
| 2016 | 1 | 1,719 | observed |
| 2017 | 5 | 985 | observed |
| 2018 | 4 | 1,148 | observed |
| 2019 | 3 | 1,298 | observed |
| 2020 | 3 | 1,347 | observed |
| 2021 | 5 | 1,077 | observed |
| 2022 | 4 | 1,143 | observed |
| 2023 | 3 | 1,310 | observed |
| 2024 | 4 | 1,147 | observed |
| 2025 | 5 | 1,013 | observed |
Statistics count the spelling “Luísa” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
Luisa— “famous war”
Luisa, _f._ _Span._ _Port._ Teu. famous war, 405
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ireland — babies' first names with three or more occurrences, 1964–2025
Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.