Loüd
surname · Latin script
Loüd is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: lude loud (OE hlud), perhaps in part preserving the OE byname Hluda that Ekwall postulates to explain the placenames Loudham (Suffolk) and Lowdham (Notts.). 2.
- USUnited States1 in 173K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 419K
- ESSpain1 in 7.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 173K (inferred from the name graph)
1,922 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Loud in US United States, BR Brazil, ES Spain.
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)lude loud (OE hlud), perhaps in part preserving the OE byname Hluda that Ekwall postulates to explain the placenames Loudham (Suffolk) and Lowdham (Notts.). 2. topographic name for someone who lived by a roaring stream, OE *hlyde, or habitation name from any of the places named from this word, e.g. Lyde in Hereford and Somerset. 3. habitation name from Louth in Lines., so called from its position on the river Lud (OE Hlude ‘Loud’). Var.: Lowde. Lorin see Laur Lorkin see Larkin Louden see Lowden
Cited for this meaning 5
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Loüd 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,922 | 1 in 173K | 1.9K | Loud | 35 |
| BR Brazil | 21 | 1 in 10M | 21 | Loud | 13 |
| DK Denmark | 14 | 1 in 419K | 14 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | Loud | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
1,922 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Loüd mean, and where does it come from?
- lude loud (OE hlud), perhaps in part preserving the OE byname Hluda that Ekwall postulates to explain the placenames Loudham (Suffolk) and Lowdham (Notts.). 2. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Loüd have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Loüd, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled loud.
- Where is Loüd most common?
- Loüd is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 173 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Loüd?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,922 people named Loüd in 2010, about 1 in 173 thousand 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, “Loüd”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.