The princess received the names of Louise Marie Amélie during her baptism on 28 March, with her godparents being her great uncle Archduke John of Austria and her great-grandmother, Maria Amalia, Dowager Queen consort of the French, who since the Revolution of 1848, lived in exile in Great Britain. Because she was unable to go to Belgium for the baptism due to her old age, Maria Amalia expressed the wish that her goddaughter would receive the first name of the first Queen of the Belgians, her eldest and beloved daughter who died prematurely.