Ludvíg

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ludvíg is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 525(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 1.5K
  • DKDenmark1 in 2.6K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

19,435 people

Sources
14 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 525 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ludvig in SE Sweden.

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)

recorded in Swedish

Ludvig är ett tyskt namn, sammansatt av fornhögtyskt hlūt ’högljudd; berömd’ och wīg ’kamp, strid’ (motsvarande fornsvenskt vigh med samma betydelse; jfr envig). En fransk form är → Louis. Ludvig har varit ett vanligt franskt kunganamn, tidigt i den frankiska formen Chlodwig, senare i formen Louis. Namnet har varit mycket populärt i Sverige under flera årtionden. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 2 oktober, till minne av Ludvig den helige (död 1270).

Sources 3

  • Családnevek enciklopédiája
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ludvíg 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.

Where Ludvíg is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden19,4351 in 52519KLudvig7
NO Norway3,6631 in 1.5K13K—2
DK Denmark2,2241 in 2.6K2.2K——
FI Finland5461 in 10K1.9K—1
BR Brazil221 in 9.6M1.2K——
IS Iceland71 in 50K7——

19,435 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ludvíg under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Ludvíg a male or female name?
Ludvíg is a male 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.
In which country does Ludvíg have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Ludvíg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ludvig.
Where is Ludvíg most common?
Ludvíg is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 525 people carrying it.
How common is the name Ludvíg?
In Sweden, the national register counted 19,435 people named Ludvíg, about 1 in 525 residents.

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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, “Ludvíg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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