Ľudmila
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʎudmiɫa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ľudmila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common given name. Recorded meaning: First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. Cognate with Czech Ludmila.
- CZCzechia1 in 74(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 45as Людмила
- RURussia≈1 in 88as Людмила
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ľudmila itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #40 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- 1 in 74 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600,000 named Людмила, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Людмила in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more, Ludmila in CZ Czechia and Ljudmila in MD Moldova.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. Cognate with Czech Ludmila.
Sources 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ľudmila counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #21 | ≈1,600,000 est. | ≈1 in 88 | #10 | Людмила | 200 |
| UA Ukraine | #12 | ≈980,000 est. | ≈1 in 45 | listed | Людмила | 105 |
| CZ Czechia | #101 | 145,500 | 1 in 74 | 146K | Ludmila | 108 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #21 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 212 | 3.9K | Людмила | 57 |
| BY Belarus | #20 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 143 | 7 | Людмила | 53 |
| MD Moldova | #36 | 28,999as Liudmila | 1 in 116 | 29K | Ljudmila | 33 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; MVČR — living population register 2017; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lyudmila Rudenkob. 1904UAnot in their usual nameSoviet chess player (1904-1986)
- Lyudmila Pavlichenkob. 1916UAnot in their usual nameSoviet sniper (1916–1974)
- Lyudmila Zykinab. 1929RUnot in their usual nameRussian folk singer (1929-2009)
- Lyudmila Gurchenkob. 1935RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian theater and film actress, singer, composer, director (1935—2011)
- Lyudmila Petrushevskayab. 1938RUnot in their usual nameRussian writer
- Lyudmila Ulitskayab. 1943RUnot in their usual nameRussian writer
- Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkinab. 1948RUnot in their usual nameUkrainian astronomer
- Ludmilla Tourischevab. 1952UAnot in their usual nameSoviet-Ukrainian artistic gymnast (born 1952)
- Lyudmila Putinab. 1958RUnot in their usual nameRussian linguist and 1983–2013 wife of Russian president Vladimir Putin (born 1958)
- Ludmila Engquistb. 1964RURussian-Swedish hurdler and bobsledder
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1.5K | #410 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 754 | #451 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ľudmila mean, and where does it come from?
- First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. Cognate with Czech Ludmila. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Ľudmila?
- A machine transcription gives /ʎudmiɫa/ (IPA) for Slovak.
- Is Ľudmila a male or female name?
- Ľudmila is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Ľudmila?
- In the etymology graph, Ludmiła is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ľudmila have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 million people named Людмила in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ľudmila most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ľudmila is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 74 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ľudmila?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 145,500 people named Ľudmila, about 1 in 74 residents.
- How common is Ľudmila compared with other names?
- In Russia, Ľudmila is the 21st most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%BEudmilaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ľudmila” — the 21st most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.