louis or louie ?

[bethjoanne]

hi i love the name louie/louis for a boy.

which spelling do you prefer?

I love it too, I would spell it Louis

The correct one. Louis. Don't try to be 'yoonique'.

Love the name but hate the louie spelling

Louis

Louis!

Louis

Louie

Louis

I have a Louis, great name

Louis!

Love the name. But be prepared for people who pronounce it as Lewis!

Louis. I agree that people might pn it Lewis, but they'd be idiots so...

It's Louis.

There is only one correct version. That is Louis.

I prefer Louis out of those two spellings. I have a Lewis but it's pronounced differently and haven't had any confusion with Lewis/Louis.

Louis - lovely name. Don't go down the Louie route.

Louis, without a doubt.

Louis = Lou-is
Lou-ie = Lou-ie

So it depends on how you want it pronounced. Yes, I know the French don't pronounce their 's' at the end of words/names but the rest of the world do and will pronounce Louis as Lou-is.

"Louis. I agree that people might pn it Lewis, but they'd be idiots so... "

Well, then there are a lot of idiots in the world because apart from the French most langugages pronounce the s of Louis. For example, the city of St Louis in Missouri is pronounced St Louis, not Lou-ee.

My (German) nephew is Louis and pronounces it Lou-is as written. Seems quite popular in Germany.

I guess here (in the UK) some people prefer to pronounce it the French way (Lou-ie) but a lot of people won't, so you have to be prepared for the two pronounciations if you spell it Louis.

By spelling it Louie, an English speaker will clearly, unambiguously know how it should be pronounced.

I am pretty sure most people pronounce Louis as 'Louie', even in the UK. I used to work with someone called Louis and someone called Lewis, and nobody ever got them mixed up.

Outside of France, most people do pronounce Louis as Lou-is. So if you don't like that pronunciation, I'd spell it Louie.

No they don't.

Anyone see that recent episode of The Thick of It where Peter Mannion stumbles over a "foreign-sounding" name? How much of an idiot did he seem?

"Outside of France, most people do pronounce Louis as Lou-is. So if you don't like that pronunciation, I'd spell it Louie"

I don't know any french Louis', I know loads of non french ones spent Louis and they are all pronounced louie, and never have to correct people, I think most people know how to say it its not an unusual name