Name meaning & stats
Lou
Lou. 21,383 US babies since 1940, peak 1954.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
In US birth records
Peak year: 1954
21,383 US babies were named Lou between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Lou (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 1954)