Loviisa

From Swedish Lovisa, cognate to English Louisa and Louise. In Finnish, towns named after individuals are often left as is. Compare Pietari (“St Petersburg”), Antrea and Mikkeli.

• IPA^(key): /ˈloʋiːsɑ/, [ˈlo̞ʋiːs̠ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -oʋiːsɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Lo‧vii‧sa
• Hyphenation^(key): Lo‧vii‧sa

Loviisa

1. a female given name
   1. (historical) Louise, Luisa, Lovisa; used to translate certain regal names.
2. a town and municipality of Uusimaa, on the southeast coast of Finland, named in 1752 for Queen Lovisa Ulrika of Sweden

Since 2002, the Institute for the Languages of Finland has recommended the use of unadapted regal names for new heads of state. Thus, Charles III of England is Charles but Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden is Kaarle Kustaa.

The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Loviisa" is Loviisassa.

• Loviisa is the 586^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 488 female individuals (and as a middle name to 2,660 more, making it much more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• lasiovi, oivalsi, silavoi