Ludan

surname · Latin script

Meaning: inflection of ludir:

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Ludan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 159Kas Лудан(inferred from the name graph)
  • PLPoland1 in 1.2M
  • RURussia≈1 in 1.2Mas Лудан

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 Ludan 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.

Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)

≈280 named Лудан, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
67 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LudanLatin(measured from records)
ЛуданCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Лудан in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more.

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)

inflection of ludir:

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ludan 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 Ludan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UA Ukraine≈280 est.≈1 in 159K—Лудан25
RU Russia≈120 est.≈1 in 1.2M#4,656Лудан67
PL Poland331 in 1.2M19—1
KZ Kazakhstan≈4 est.≈1 in 5.2M—Лудан11
US United States——listedLudan4
TR Türkiye———Лудан1

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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ludan is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Chinese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in China, United States, Malaysia

    Also written Lu-Dan

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ludano

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, France

    Also written Lüdan

33 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)

Ludan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, ) Luzian: männl. Vom., der auf den römischen Bdnamen Ludanus, Wdter- bildung von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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)

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)

FormalDear Mr Ludan,
InformalHi Ludan,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Ludan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202619—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—19#92,821
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202614—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—14#111,297
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • 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 Ludan mean, and where does it come from?
inflection of ludir: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Ludan?
A machine transcription gives /ɫudən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Ludan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 277 people named Лудан in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ludan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ludan is densest in Poland — about 1 in 1.2 million people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ludan?
In Poland, the national register counted 33 people named Ludan in 2026, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.

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The 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, “Ludan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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