Ludi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: plural of ludus
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed under both sexes
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ludi/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Ludi is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 76Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador≈1 in 110K
- PEPeru≈1 in 160Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)plural of ludus
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ludi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 373K | 1 | Ludi | 2 |
| CO Colombia | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 76K | 1 | Ludi | 21 |
| AO Angola | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Ludi | 5 |
| MX Mexico | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 243K | — | Ludi | 30 |
| FR France | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 192K | 6 | — | — |
| GT Guatemala | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Ludi | 7 |
| US United States | 193 | 1 in 1.7M | 240 | Ludi | 71 |
| EC Ecuador | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 112K | 1 | — | 9 |
| HN Honduras | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Ludi | 3 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the co-datosgov-candidates register; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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)Ludi is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, present passive infinitive of lūdō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, to play (a game)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, world
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
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)- Ludi Boekenb. 1951NLDutch producer and director
- Ludi Linb. 1984CNChinese-Canadian actor and model
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Ludi a male or female name?
- Ludi is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed under both sexes; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Ludi mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of ludus Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ludi?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ludi/; in Indonesian /ludi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Ludi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Ludi in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ludi.
- How common is the name Ludi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 193 people named Ludi in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ludi?
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/ludiThe 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, “Ludi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.