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Louie

Louie ranks #40 out of 682 boy cat names in our data (the #1 boy cat name is Charlie). Across all 3 places, 36 cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #17 among boy dog names.
Louie's popularity trend

Louie's share of cats, year by year — or toggle to its yearly rank. Peak year by share: 2018.

0.05%0.1%0.15%20122014201620182019
Cats in our data
36
across 3 places
Popularity rank
#40
of 682 boy cat names
5-year rank move
+103
2014 → 2019
Gender split
97% male
3% female97% male

Gender split comes from 87 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Louie mean?
/ˈluː.i/2 syllables

Louie is a nickname for Louis, a name built from the Old Germanic elements hlud, meaning famous, and wig, meaning battle -- together read as famous warrior. The name passed through French as Louis and became a mainstay of European royalty, carried by eighteen French kings.

Louie has a scrappy, old-timer charm, the kind of name that suits a companion with a big personality tucked into a small, dapper package.

Etymology & pronunciation from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Where Louie shows up

Cats named Louie per place, against that place's total.

PlaceShare
TorontoON, CA0.11%
SeattleWA, US0.11%
DarwinNT, AU0.13%

Cat names like Louie

LouisLouiseLou

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Louie means, by theme

Warrior