Ludena
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/luðena/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ludena is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 6.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 34K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 68K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ludeña in PE Peru, ES Spain, AR Argentina and 3 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ludena 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #689 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Ludeña | 44 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,455 | 1 in 34K | 1.5K | Ludeña | 49 |
| US United States | — | 395 | 1 in 842K | 401 | Ludena | 86 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 736K | — | Ludeña | 14 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Ludeña | 10 |
| AR Argentina | — | 106 | 1 in 429K | 106 | Ludeña | 18 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 390K | — | Ludeña | 12 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 401 | #55,282 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 395 | #52,482 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 246 | #73,412 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 24 | #74,433 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 24 | #73,510 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Ludena?
- A machine transcription gives /luðena/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Ludena have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Ludena in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ludeña.
- How common is the name Ludena?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,455 people named Ludena, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
- How common is Ludena compared with other names?
- In Peru, Ludena is the 689th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ludena?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ludenaThe 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, “Ludena” — the 689th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.