Ludek
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ludɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ludek is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 354(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 175K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 218K
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)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- 1 in 354 (inferred from the name graph)
30,208 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ludek 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #272 | 30,208 | 1 in 354 | 30K | Ludek | 108 |
| US United States | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | — | Ludek | 61 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Ludek | 14 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Ludek | 18 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 754K | — | Ludek | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 637K | — | Ludek | 4 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Ludek | 4 |
| IS Iceland | — | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 705K | listed | — | 4 |
30,208 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling luděk. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); the ee-siseministeerium-registry 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Ludek 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 Polish, figurine (small human-shaped figure)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Luděk Maroldb. 1865CZCzech illustrator and painter (1865-1898)
- Luděk Pachmanb. 1924CZCzechoslovak-German chess grandmaster (1924-2003)
- Luděk Munzarb. 1933CZCzech dubbing actor, actor, presenter and television presenter (1933-2019)
- Luděk Bukačb. 1935CZCzech ice hockey player and manager (1935-2019)
- Luděk Pojeznýb. 1937CZCzechoslovak rower
- Luděk Macelab. 1950CZCzech footballer (1950-2016)
- Luděk Mikloškob. 1961CZCzech footballer
- Luděk Čajkab. 1963CZCzech ice hockey player (1963-1990)
- Luděk Stracenýb. 1977CZCzech soccer player and soccer representant
- Luděk Pernicab. 1990CZCzech soccer player
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)
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- How do you pronounce Ludek?
- A machine transcription gives /ludɛk/ (IPA) for Czech.
- Is Ludek a male or female name?
- Ludek 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 Ludek have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Ludek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ludek.
- Where is Ludek most common?
- Ludek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 354 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ludek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 30,208 people named Ludek, about 1 in 354 residents.
- How common is Ludek compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Ludek is the 272nd most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ludek?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ludekThe 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, “Ludek” — the 272nd most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.