Louis (name)

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Louis /LOO-ee/ is the French form of the German name Ludwig. Ludwig is composed of the words for "fame" (hlod) and "war" (wig) which may be translated to famous warrior or "famous in battle".

Contents 1 Overview 2 Variant forms 2.1 French variant spelling 2.1.1 Masculine 2.1.2 Feminine 2.2 German variant spelling

[edit] Overview

Louis was the name of 18 kings of France, including Louis IX (Saint Louis) who led two crusades, and Louis XIV (the ‘Sun King’) who was the ruler of France during the height of its power, the builder of the Palace of Versailles, and the longest reigning monarch in the history of Europe. Rendered fashionable by the Carolingians’ (Dauzat) in 751 -987 AD.

In the Middle Ages this was the hereditary given name of French nobles who claimed descent from Clovis (another version of the same name), the first king of the Franks. One such family were the Bourbons, who provided kings of France from 1589 to 1789. In English speaking countries the anglicized version Lewis is sometimes used.

[edit] Variant forms

• Basque - Aloxi, Koldobika, Luki

• Czech - Ludvik

• Dutch - Lodewijk

• English - Lewis, Lewes, Lewie, or Lew

• Hawaiian - Lui

• Hungarian - Lajos

• Italian - Luigi, Lodovico
  • Italian Feminine - Luisa, Luigia, Eloisa

• Portuguese - Luís (Luiz is an archaic form)
  • Portuguese Feminine - Luísa (Luiza is an archaic form)

• Spanish - Luis /LWEES/
  • Spanish Feminine - Luisa

• Swedish
  • Swedish Feminine - Lova

• Welsh - Llewelyn or Llewellyn Definition - In the likeness of a lion.

[edit] French variant spelling

[edit] Masculine

• Louis - Definition - War famous and/or famed warrior

• Louys

• Luic - Little Louis.

• Loual - A name invented by combining Louis and Albert.

• Loewy - A variant form of Loeb

• Lourent - A variant form of Loanda, or Luanda name invented by combining Lou

• Clovis - From the Anglo-Saxon and German, meaning “a clover,” a leguminous plant.

[edit] Feminine

• Louise - French feminine form of Louis.

• Louisa, Eloise, Heloise, Lisette, Luise - Feminine form variants.

• Louvenia - A name invented by combining the masculine Louis and a form of Lavinia.

• Louella or Luella - meaning origin uncertain

• Loudella - A hybrid name crated by combining Lou (Louise) with Ella or Della.

[edit] German variant spelling

• Ludwig - From the Old German name Hluodowig, derived from the Germanic hiuda, meaning “famous,” and wiga, meaning “war”: Akin to Louis.

• Ludlow
• Ludek
• Lewisohn
• Lewin
• Lowe - A variant form of the German name Loeb. From the German, meaning “a lion.” Common as a Yiddish form. Jews use it as a middle name with Judah -Hebrew meaning “praise” (Judah Loeb) because of the reference in the Bible, comparing Judah to a lion.