Luder
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variant cluster shows o/u vowel alternation in Luder/Loder forms; partly treated as a nickname meaning 'Taugenichts, Possenreißer'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈluːdɐ/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Luder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 10K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 39K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 390Kfew records
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 Luder itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lueder in US United States, BR Brazil and Lüder in DE Germany.
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)Variant cluster shows o/u vowel alternation in Luder/Loder forms; partly treated as a nickname meaning 'Taugenichts, Possenreißer'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Luder is found
(measured from records)Luder 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Lüder | 70 |
| CH Switzerland | 832 | 1 in 10K | 832 | Luder | 47 |
| US United States | 460as Lueder | 1 in 723K | 460 | Lueder | 146 |
| BR Brazil | 191 | 1 in 1.1M | 191 | Lueder | 9 |
| PH Philippines | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Luder | 14 |
| AT Austria | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Luder | 10 |
| SG Singapore | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 328K | — | Luder | 2 |
| BB Barbados | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Luder | 1 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Luder 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 German, bait
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, alternative form of ludder (“prostitute”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a whore, a hooker (prostitute)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, luthier
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)- Ítalo Luderb. 1916ARArgentine politician (1916-2008)
- Owen Luderb. 1928GBBritish architect who designed a number of notable and sometimes controversial buildings in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s
- Stefan Luderb. 1967CHSwiss male curler
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)Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Luder mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant cluster shows o/u vowel alternation in Luder/Loder forms; partly treated as a nickname meaning 'Taugenichts, Possenreißer'. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- How do you pronounce Luder?
- It depends on the language: in German /ˈluːdɐ/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /luðɛr/; in Portuguese /ludeɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Luder?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Luder in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lüder. After it come Switzerland, United States, Brazil and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Luder most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Luder is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Luder?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 832 people named Luder in 2024, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Luder?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/luderThe 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, “Luder”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.