Hugo or Louis/ Louie

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Trying to decide between Hugo or Louis/Louie for third baby. Already have a Theodore and Noah.

Hugo

Our friends have a Hugo and its so cute! It travels better too

Louie seems to have become the more popular spelling in the UK

Louis is often mispronounced Lou-is

I voted Louis only to try to avoid the curse of being called Hugo. I don't like Louis either but at least it's a king's name.

. Louie looks feminine and babyish. Given that the Waleses youngest child is Louis, people would probably be familiar with the name.

@FayCarew The majority of parents seem to disagree as more are using the spelling Louie!

Compromise - Huey!

I actually really like both, but Louis is my favourite!

The curse of being called Hugo?

It's one of the oldest names in Europe rich with history, used by kings in France back in the day, means mind and intellect, and is in the top 100 in the Uk and top 50 in France, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands. Doesn't seem too awful but if anything pretty cool and international.

Theodore, Noah and Louis sound best to me.

Never mispell Louis as Louie. Everyone, except the very ignorant, knows how to pronounce Louis.
Hugo sounds too samey/tongue twister/complicated in the same sentence with Theo and Noah.

Other ideas:
Theodore, Noah and
Gabriel
Michael
Raphael
Philip

I dislike the name Lewis, but we called our son Louie, yes that spelling 😳as I didn't want people to confuse the French spelling (Louis) ...which would happen . Nothing wrong with spelling it Louie . He is 22 now and it's a great name

Louis 🥰

Louis but where I live it's pronounced Lewis.

Doesn't The gymnast Louis Smith pronounce his name also as Lou-is?

Btw I'm not ignorant, I just know that people will pronounce 'louis' - Lewis ....so many many years ago we decided to call our son Louie ...and I'm glad we did, no confusion, no mispronunciation .. happy days 😁

Our cat is Louie, but I actually dithered about changing his name to Hugo when we adopted him. Both fab names.

Regarding Louie versus Louis.

This may not be relevant or it may be in future years to someone who should be prepared to correct the pronunciation of their name.

From reading up on it, it seems that Louis is the preferred spelling of the name in the US.

However, because Americans generally are more familiar with the Spanish language than the French, Louis is very often pronounced Loo-iss.

The Spanish name is Luis, where the "s" ls not silent.

Louie ( the slightly less popular spelling of the name than Louis) of course is always pronounced Loo-ee.
Even though most would say it isn't relevant how a name is pronounced in America, it does point out that it is a confusing name unfortunately, not everyone will say it correctly.

It's not just in America that Louis is pronounced like Lou-is (Lewis), but also in many European countries apart from France.

That's probably why Louie has become the more popular spelling

Louie is cute on a toddler - but my first reference is the famous cartoon duck so I’m less keen for adults. Whereas there have been what seems like a zillion Kings of France named Louis - there’s been enough of them historically that the majority of people should be able to pronounce and spell it.

I’ve never heard of the King Hugo that a previous poster mentioned - to me Hugo is along the lines of Rupert, a former “posh boy” name (at least in the UK), but has now gone more mainstream. Classic Hugh on the other hand is just your average bloke (admittedly more likely a middle aged one, since it seems underused on kids now).

There have been quite a number of fictional and cartoon characters named Louie, including the trio Huey and Dewey and Louie.
Speaking of Huey.
Apparently the name Hugh, and even Huw, is enjoying a comeback in popularity with new parents.
It's a great name.

Huw was very popular in Wales about 50-60 years ago.

Theo and Noah have much nicer names.

Babies called Huw in England & Wales since 1996 (darkgreener.com)
23 Huws in 2021.

Thanks @FayCarew , you're right, Huw is quite outdated, and even Hugh, isn't the most popular these days in the UK.

Huw/ Hugh was used a lot 25-30 yrs ago, and it's had it's literal ups and downs, like a mountain range on the graph, but is in the down-swing at this time.

Your name source is a good one, new to me, I was looking at some others but, mainly I got the idea that Hugh was having a bit of a resurgence from a few PPs that seemed to like it, which surprised me actually.

Hugo ranks among the top 100 in many countries in Europe, not so much elsewhere.
Top four names in NA for 2024 are: Noah, Liam, Oliver and Elijah.
Hugo doesn't make the cut.
Thanks for the darkgreener site name, it's very different from ones I've seen.

I think Hugh/Huw is a great classic name. Well known but not fashionable currently - 23 Huws is not too popular but still a well known name.