Marialuisa
Feminine · “Hebrew Miryam and Germanic hlod”
Goya painted the family of Charles IV in 1800 with Queen Maria Luisa at the dead center, and the portrait is famously unkind to everybody in it. Art historians have argued for two centuries about whether he meant it, and about why the court accepted the picture.
How old is the name Marialuisa?
Marialuisa first appears in US birth records in 1929 — 96 years ago. The typical Marialuisa alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 600 people named Marialuisa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marialuisa most popular?
Marialuisa peaked in 1976, reaching #4154 nationally. Today it ranks #9457, 5,303 places below that high. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Miryam to Marialuisa
The story of Marialuisa
The Family of Charles IV hangs in the Prado and shows thirteen members of the Spanish royal family, with the queen at the center holding two children, the king beside her, and Goya himself at a canvas in the shadows at the back, an arrangement borrowed from Velazquez's Las Meninas. What has kept the picture argued over is the faces: nobody in it is flattered, the king looks vacant, the queen hard, and the whole group has been described since the nineteenth century as looking like a grocer's family who have won the lottery, a remark usually attributed to Theophile Gautier. Whether Goya intended satire, whether the sitters saw any, and whether court portraiture of the period was simply more literal than we assume, are all still open. The painting was accepted and paid for.
Meaningscholars disagree
Hebrew Miryam and Germanic hlod, fame
Marialuisa joins Maria, from Hebrew Miryam, whose meaning is genuinely unknown, to Luisa, the Spanish and Italian feminine of Louis, from Frankish Chlodovech, fame and battle. It is a standard Spanish and Italian compound name, written as one word or two. The American record collapses the space. The peak is 1976.
How the name formed
- Miryam
- Maria
- Marialuisa
Related forms: Maria Luisa · Marialuisa · Marie-Louise
Pronouncing Marialuisa
mah-ree-ah-loo-EE-sah
Six syllables, with the main stress on the fifth. In Spanish the two names are said as a single unit with one main stress.
Nicknames for Marialuisa
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1929
- Most girls named
- 200727 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4154reached in 1976
- Change vs 2024
- −56.5%10 in 2025, from 23
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Marialuisa in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Maria Luisa in Spanish — spelling variant
- Marialuisa in Italian — same name
- Marie-Louise in French — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Massachusetts, Texas.
Marialuisas among us
people named Marialuisa are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 160,727 born in 2025 was named Marialuisa
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Marialuisa
- #9457
- Marialuisa on the 2025 chart
- #940
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Marialuisa went to 10 girls in 2025, but Marialuiza is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 20, which makes it the 940th most-given girls’ name of the year — 8,517 places above the chart.
- Marialuisa10
- Marialuiza10
About 1 girl in 80,363 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 160,727 for Marialuisa itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Dareen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Marialuisa's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Dareen climbed just as high around 1956, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Dareen's path sketches the road Marialuisa is walking now.
Marialuisa sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Marialuisa beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Marialuisa in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Malu and Marisa are both established contracted forms.
- Both halves are complete and classic names.
- It is a standard compound across the Spanish-speaking world.
- Ten letters as one word will be split by many systems.
- Six syllables is long for everyday use.
- It is usually written as two words in Spanish.
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Frequently asked
- How many Marialuisas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Marialuisa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Marialuisa?
- Marialuisa is the most-used spelling in US records — 10 of the 20 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Marialuiza.
- How popular is the name Marialuisa in 2025?
- Marialuisa ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Marialuisa?
- About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Marialuisa — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Marialuisa with classmates?
- Marialuisa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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