Entry № 6090 · Spanish origin

Luisa Luisa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ loo-EE-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Famous warrior (Luisa Madrigal in Encanto; multinational name)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "famous warrior (luisa madrigal in encanto; multinational name)".

Luisa is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian feminine of Luis / Louis — from the Old Germanic hlud (famous) + wig (battle, warrior).

Famous warrior (Luisa Madrigal in Encanto; multinational name) — a Spanish name.

The name in its native script.

Luisa
Transliteration
Luisa
Pronunciation
/ luˈiː.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Luisa stands.

Luisa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Luisas before her.

Real people
Saint Luisa de Marillac
Co-founder of Daughters of Charity.
1591 – 1660
Luisa Casati
Italian fashion patron.
1881 – 1957
Luisa Fernanda W
Colombian model.
born 1993
In fiction
Luisa Madrigal
Disney's Encanto.
2021

Names connected to Luisa.

The number behind Luisa.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Luisa reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.