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Louise vs Lisa - What's the difference?

louise | lisa |

As proper nouns the difference between louise and lisa

is that louise is {{given name|female|from=French|}} while Lisa is {{given name|female|from=Hebrew}}.

louise

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
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  • * 1890 Arthur Weir, John Arthur Lockhart: The Romance of Sir Richard. Published by William Drysdale&Co. page 83:
    • Louise , thy stately name sounds in my ear / Like a sea wave, that gathering, hill on hill, / Upon the blue horizon, smooth and still, / Sweeps to the shore
  • * 1957 , The Con Man , Armchair Detective Library (1991), ISBN 0922890935, page 47:
    • That's what I baptized her. Mary Louise'. Everybody else called her just plain Mary, but that wasn't the way I intended it. I intended it Mary '''Louise'''. That's a pretty name, isn't it? Mary ' Louise . Mary is too...plain?
  • * 1991 Emily Ellison, The Picture Makers , G.K.Hall, ISBN 0816151660, page 111:
    • I've always thought I was too large for a soft, musical name like Louise , too untidy.

    Usage notes

    Used in English since the seventeenth century, more in the U.K. than in the U.S.A. A common middle name today.

    Related terms

    * Lou, Louie, Louisa, Lula, Lulu

    lisa

    English

    Proper noun

    (s)
  • .
    • You were born in the '70s? Were you named after on As the World Turns?

    Usage notes

    * Taken to general use as a full English given name in early 20th century. Very popular in the U.S. in the 1960s, and in the U.K. a decade later.

    Quotations

    * 1868 Concocted by William Meynell Whittmore (and others): Sunshine : page 138: *: Elizabeth coloured. *: "Oh, I don't want the doll called after me, if that is what you mean," she said, rather disdainfully. *: "Nonsense, Lisa !" laughed her father, "you ought to consider yourself highly honoured to have such a handsome lady as this for your namesake." * 1997 , Moon Tiger . Grove Press. ISBN0802135331 *: Lisa' is a better name. Claudia bangs, like the gong in the hall at Sotleigh. Bang - whoom! ' Lisa makes a nice silky noise, like streams or rain. * 2007 , My Latest Grievance ISBN 0618872353 page 16: *: Did I want to be burdened with a common name? Be the third Lisa and fourth Susan in my classroom? Darleen or Doreen or Maureen? *: I did.

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