Meaning: Its source is Hlutwig, an Ancient Germanic name meaning "Famous warrior."

Languages: This boy's name is used in Italian.

Feminine Forms: Lodovica

Narrative: This name is sometimes Latinized as Clovis, and it was a Germanic tribal leader known by that name who ended the Roman domination of what is now France and established himself as king.

It is thus appropriate that sixteen kings of France bore the French form of this name, Louis.