Ludmila

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Slavic name meaning “dear to the people”; feast day not given in excerpt

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

/luðmila/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • UYUruguay1 in 3.2K
  • BRBrazil1 in 6.4K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

145,500 people

Sources
147 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 74 (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Slavic name meaning “dear to the people”; feast day not given in excerpt.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Ludmila is read(measured from records)

Ludmila is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish59%

    Eslavo: ‘amada por el pueblo’.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • Portuguese13%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Ludmila in Portuguese.

  • English7.5%

    Slavonic; loved by the people.

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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ludmila 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 Ludmila is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia—145,5001 in 74146K—1
BR Brazil#95633,1591 in 6.4K33KLudmila147
AR Argentina#316≈30,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K554Ludmila97
MD Moldova#40422,2501 in 15122KLudmila21
LV Latvia—12,2641 in 15312KLudmila21
UY Uruguay#2931,0611 in 3.2K1.1KLudmila20

145,500 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ludmila is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Lûdmila, Ľudmila, Lüdmila, Luedmila, L'Udmila

  • Romanian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Moldova, Romania, United States, Italy

    Also written Lüdmila, Ľudmila

  • Latvian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Russia, United States, Spain

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Ļudmila, Lûdmila

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Russia

    Also written Ľudmila, Lüdmila

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Lûdmila, Ľudmila, L'Udmila, L̓udmila, Lu̇dmila

  • Estonian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Latvia, Moldova, Finland

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian

    Also written Lûdmila, Lùdmìlá, Lüdmila, Ľudmila

  • Swedish given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, United States

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Ļudmila, Ľudmila, Lúdmíla

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ludmila 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 French, Slavic name meaning “dear to the people”; feast day not given in excerpt.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • Russian and Czech: from a Slavonic personal name derived from lud ‘people’, ‘tribe’ (a borrowing from Germanic Jiut) + mil ‘grace’, ‘favour’. St Ludmila (d. 921) was a duchess of Bohemia and grandmother of St Wenceslas; she was murdered on the orders of her mother-in-law and came to be regarded as a martyr. Variant: Ludmilla (in the English-speaking world).

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Swedish, Se Mila.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Russian, var of Liudmila.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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)

19001920194019601980Lyudmila Rudenko, b. 1904Lída Baarová, b. 1914Lyudmila Pavlichenko, b. 1916Lyudmila Zykina, b. 1929Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, b. 1938Lyudmila Ulitskaya, b. 1943Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina, b. 1948Ludmilla Tourischeva, b. 1952Lyudmila Putina, b. 1958Ludmila Engquist, b. 1964

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)

InformalHola Ludmila,Hi Ludmila, (English)

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 73 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Ludmila
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—146K#34
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—73K#39
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—73K#39
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202233K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—33K#760
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—24K#1,241
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—22K#50
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—12K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—12K#23
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—1.1K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—1K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2024554#261

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 Ludmila mean, and where does it come from?
Slavic name meaning “dear to the people”; feast day not given in excerpt. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
How do you pronounce Ludmila?
A machine transcription gives /luðmila/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Ludmila a male or female name?
Ludmila 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 Ludmila?
In the etymology graph, Lyudmila, Liudmila and Ljudmila are forms of the same name in other languages; Lída is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Ludmila have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 146 thousand people named Ludmila, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ludmila most common?
Ludmila is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 74 people carrying it.
How common is the name Ludmila?
In Czechia, the national register counted 145,500 people named Ludmila, about 1 in 74 residents.
How common is Ludmila compared with other names?
In Uruguay, Ludmila is the 293rd most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.

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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, “Ludmila” — the 293rd most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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