Lüdemann
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1610 bearers; patronymic -mann to Lüde, short form from Ludwig/Ludolf (root 'famous')
/lyːdəman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lüdemann is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 567K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 82K
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 Lüdemann 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ludemann in US United States, NZ New Zealand, CD Congo - Kinshasa and Luedemann in CF Central African Republic, PK Pakistan.
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)
1610 bearers; patronymic -mann to Lüde, short form from Ludwig/Ludolf (root 'famous').
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lüdemann 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Lüdemann | 70 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Ludemann | 1 |
| CF Central African Republic | #400 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Luedemann | 1 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 381K | — | Luedemann | 1 |
| US United States | — | 587 | 1 in 567K | 587 | Ludemann | 144 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Ludemann | 20 |
| NO Norway | — | 32 | 1 in 171K | 32 | Lüdemann | 6 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the dfa-band-2 register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lüdemann is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronym zu Kurzformen von Lud(wig)/Lud(olf) oder zu Rufnamen mit ahd. liut 'Volk' bzw. hlūt 'berühmt' + man 'Mann'; Dentale: Plosive; 1647 Bearer
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Platte zum Schwund von d in Patronymen aus Dietrich; zeigt Ausfall des dentalen d in Ableitungen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Patronymischer -mann-Name zu Lüde, Kurzform eines Rufnamens; belegt mit 1610 Trägern.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, zu ahd./mhd. munt, altsächs. mund „Hand, Schutz, Vormund“; Rufname Lüde-
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Daniel Lüdemannb. 1621DEGerman theologian
- Hermann Lüdemannb. 1842DEGerman theologian (1842-1933)
- Hermann Lüdemannb. 1880DEGerman politician (1880-1959)
- Karl-Friedrich Lüdemannb. 1912DEGerman metallurgist
- Barbara Lüdemannb. 1922DEGerman politician (1922–1992)
- Gerd Lüdemannb. 1946DEGerman biblical scholar (1946–2021)
- Hans Lüdemannb. 1961DEGerman jazz pianist
- Carsten-Ludwig Lüdemannb. 1964DEGerman politician
- Mirko Lüdemannb. 1973DEGerman ice hockey player
- Carolin Lüdemannb. 1978DEGerman writer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 3 | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Lüdemann mean, and where does it come from?
- 1610 bearers; patronymic -mann to Lüde, short form from Ludwig/Ludolf (root 'famous'). Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen.
- How do you pronounce Lüdemann?
- A machine transcription gives /lyːdəman/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Lüdemann have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Lüdemann in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lüdemann.
- How common is the name Lüdemann?
- In the United States, the national register counted 587 people named Lüdemann in 2010, about 1 in 567 thousand residents.
- How common is Lüdemann compared with other names?
- In the Central African Republic, Lüdemann is the 400th most common surname of 1,109 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%BCdemannThe 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, “Lüdemann” — the 400th most common surname in Central African Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.