How would you pronounce Louis?

I would pronounce Louis as loo-ey.
I think of Lewis with a hard w and the s sound, as a completely different name.

Lou-wee
Like Prince Louis.

Call him Fred. Much easier 🤣

I agree with your mum. Louie just looks weird, like you didn't know how it should be.

My name is pronounced quite differently by different people & shortened to a 'non name' (despite my parents barking at my friends it's not xxx it's xxxxxxx. 🤣(as a child, not now!)

Just use the name you live, with the correct spelling or chose a less likely to be mangled name.

Unfortunately your child will be subjected to a lifetime of people pronouncing it wrong whichever way round you go. Be prepared for your DS to be annoyed about it!

It must depend where you live. DH moved to London as a young child & no one has ever got his name wrong. I asked him as I was confused by this thread.

Do people actually think Louis Vuitton is Lewis Vuitton?

As it's French I would pronounce it the correct, French way!

I'd pronounce it as Louie (better spelt as Louis, though) unless told otherwise. I've known a few who pronounce it Lewis and nobody who pronounces it correctly, but I would always presume the correct one.

Louis us pronounced the same as
Lewis where I live.

Lou-ee instinctively but if someone said it was Lewis, it would be easy to remember. I like the name.

My nephew is called Louis. I think he’s always been Loo-ey. I’ve never heard anyone call him Lewis. Two different names imho.
It’s a great name @Yibs
I would go for the original spelling, but understand why you’d want Louie.

Loo-ee. Lewis for Lewis.

I’d pronounce a name spelt like that the correct way, i.e. loo-ee.

I’d it saw a name spelt Louie, I’d assume he was one of Donald Duck’s nephews.

Unfortunately your child will be subjected to a lifetime of people pronouncing it wrong whichever way round you go. Be prepared for your DS to be annoyed about it!

DC1 is Maya, which I had only ever known to be pronounced my-ah. But then suddenly the world was full of people who pronounce it may-ah. Which drives DC1 crazy. Sadly it seems you can't win with names with two common pronunciations.

I would know it's a loo-eee and never heard it 0
pronounced lewis (I'm south too, edge of Essex!). I do also know a Louie and I always have to remind myself to spell it without the 's'!

Louis is Loo-ee
Lewis is Loo-iss
Don't like the Louie spelling at all

I’d be unsure how to pronounce it in the UK, and expect a lot of people would pronounce it Lewis. Your DS would frequently be in a position of deciding whether or not to correct people.

I have a sibling who’s had that problem with their name and it irritates them, they often just go by the non- preferred pronunciation!

With rare spelling like Louie, pronunciation would be easier, but your DS would often have to spell it out.

Don't spell it with a E you're setting him up to spend the rest of his life correcting misspellings.

Louis is pronounced loo - eee to me, loo-is is Lewis (like the department store).

Loo ee

Sorry misunderstood! I don’t know how else you would spell it to be pronounced Louis- maybe Louie like a previous poster suggested?

I'd say lou-ay if I seen it written down, even though the only Louis that I have met in real pronounced has name Lewis too.

What are your thoughts on Loïc? I loved that name, but too French for me to use without having any French connections I felt. French speakers I've heard would say Lew-eek but English speaking commentators (I first heard it in sports) would say low-ick and I even liked that too.

Round here (south but not posh) the louis are all lew-is but I'd know that it could be lou-ie.

I think its one of those where you would be correcting. Although I do like Louie!

Either way here. I know a couple of 16/17 year olds named Louis... one is called Looooooo-eeeeee, the other Lew-iss (I used to be a dinner lady a decade ago, and was always shouting across the field to stop one of them trying to escape... guess which😏... more attempts than Steve Mcqueen.)

I’d pronounce Louis Loo-ee.

Most people hear your name first (Loo-ee) or if not very quickly correct themselves when you point it out. I wouldn’t worry about this.

Both my DC have names that I genuinely wouldn’t have thought mis-pronounceable but they commonly are. I just think that’s ignorance and it’s momentary- it’s never been any sort of issue.

He’s more likely to have Louie misspelled all sorts of places as Louis (because that’s the correct spelling) so you’d just be swapping one issue for another anyway.

I would pronounce it Loo-ey but working in a school, many, many Louis's are pronounced Lewis.
I just don't get it 🤷🏻

In the US they tend to pronounce Louis as Lewis, but I say it's pronounced Louie

Loo-ey