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Louis is the French form of the Old Frankish given name ... resulting in the traditional practice of translating Clovis' name as meaning "famous warrior" or ...
Louie is a moderately common given name, related to the more common name Louis. It originated in the United Kingdom (where Louis is pronounced / ˈ l uː i /) as a more regularly-spelled version without a silent s . In 2011, it was the 74th most common forename for births in England and Wales, with Louis only slightly more common at 68th. [1]
Clovis is the modern conventional French (and thence English) form of the Old Frankish name ᚺᛚᛟᛞᛟᚹᛁᚷ (in runic alphabet) or *"Hlōdowik" or "Hlōdowig" (in Latin alphabet), equivalent to the modern forms Louis (French), Lodewijk (Dutch), Lewis (English), and Ludwig (German).
On Friday morning, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announced the name of their third child, Prince Louis Arthur Charles.
The moniker is likely to be a nod to the young Prince's relatives, past and present.
Louis dressing, for salad; Louis Quinze, design style; Associated names. All pages with titles containing Louis; Chlodwig, the origin of the name Ludwig, which is translated to English as "Louis" Ladislav and László - names sometimes erroneously associated with "Louis" Ludovic, Ludwig, Ludwick, Ludwik, names sometimes translated to English as ...
Luis is a given name.It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name Hludowig or Chlodovech.Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: Luís (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, Lluís in Aragonese and Catalan, while Luiz is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil.
The name Loïs is derived from the name Louis, itself derived from Clovis which is derived from the Germanic root, Hlodowig, which can be interpreted in the sense of "glorious" or "illustrious fighter". Close names include Louys, Luis, Louis, Lorys, Lucio, Leonus, Louniss, Lyes, Clovis, Ludovic, Ludwig, Lovis, and Luigi. [citation needed]