Do people like Louie??

[DomesticG0ddess]

Just found out am having a boy, and therefore my top names of Ursula and Audrey are redundant... Have always liked Louie - thoughts please?!

I like it very much. It's my DD's nn, and I love it for a boy too. Congratulations.

Like it, although spell it Louis.

i would spell it Louis myself, it's a nice name!

My friend has just had a baby boy and called him Louie.

Louis is lovely.

I know a little boy called Louis and my dog is called Louis. It is an ok name.

I love it - it was on my shortlist - spelt it Louis though.

Ursula Audrey is great, use it anyway

I like Louie, prefer Louis spelling but would worry that people would pronounce it 'Lewis' and that would annoy me!

I don't like it.

Thanks for your comments - yes, I had thought about the spelling, but I know a guy called Louis ("Lewis", so I just assumed that everyone would say "Lewis".

Hedwig, I did threaten to use Ursula anyway....

I think with Louis you'll get "Lewis", which has a very different (IMHO, not as nice) sound to Louie

What about another 'animal' boys name? Leon and Wolfgang are my favourites.

Don't worry about Lewis; everyone knows hoe Louis Theroux pronounces his name.

Oh yes, Louis Theroux, but then people just hear his name, they don't read it out on the school register, at the doctors, etc - I think I would be forever correcting people, although Louie does look like a little boy name, not a grown up name....

I like Leon, but not Wolfgang.

No, but its not my baby. If you like it then use it.

My DS middle name is Louie. (Ergo - I like it).

Mind you, my mum huffed and puffed for months about how it wasn't a 'proper' name like that - so depends how much that attitude'd annoy you. You could always christen Louis but always sign him off as Louie iyswim.

Love, love, love Louis (Theroux) and the name

I don't particularly like it I'm afraid, sorry.

I know two Louis and neither of them have ever ( to the best of my knowledge) been called Lewis. Love the name BTW.

I can't believe there are people who don't know Louis is pronounced Louie.

I think it's a lovely name, and I would spell it Louis -- no pandering to the ignorant

I know 3 louis's all pronounced lewis ....

Don't like it and cannot explain why!

mathanxiety, I would say that 95% of the UK would pronounce it with an "S", at least. I agree no pandering to the ignorant but not sure I'd want to be constantly correcting them!

I have a Louis (5yrs) and no one has ever got his name wrong.