Ludin

Name: Ludin: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Ludwig

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/ludin/(machine-generated) Malay · model-generated

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

AFAfghanistan≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
MYMalaysia≈1 in 32Kfew records
CHSwitzerland1 in 33K

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.

: Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
Record sources: 128 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Luedin

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

from a pet form of the personal name Ludwig.

Cited for this meaning 1

Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world

Ludin 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 Ludin is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
AF Afghanistan	≈3,600 est.	≈1 in 10K	3	—	8
MY Malaysia	≈1,000 est.	≈1 in 32K	—	Ludin	27
DE Germany	≈330 est.	≈1 in 243K	—	Ludin	53
CH Switzerland	254	1 in 33K	254	Ludin	20
US United States	253	1 in 1.3M	303	Ludin	128
AT Austria	≈45 est.	≈1 in 198K	—	Ludin	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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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

Ludin is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Spanish surname6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Switzerland
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Lüdin, Ludiñ, Lüdïn, Ludín
Malay surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, United States, United Kingdom
Languages: Malay, Indonesian
Also written Lüdin
French surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, United States, Switzerland, Malaysia
Also written Lüdin
Czech surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Czechia
Also written Ludín
a separate name3 spellings in the group
Also written Ludín, Lüdin
Hindi surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Malaysia, India, United States
Languages: Hindi, Urdu
Also written Lüdin
Russian surname9 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Türkiye, Kazakhstan
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian
Also written Лудин, Людин, Лудін, Lüdin
Arabic surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Türkiye
Also written Lüdin, Lūdīn, Lūdîñ

30 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.

Notable people with this name

Friedrich Ludinb. 1875DEGerman author, 1875-1941
Adolf Ludinb. 1879DEGerman engineer (1879–1968)
Hanns Ludinb. 1905DEGerman Nazi diplomat (1905-1947)
Walter Ludinb. 1908CHSwiss rowing cox
Hans-Peter Ludinb. 1921CHSwiss physician, university teacher and neurologist
Malte Ludinb. 1942DEGerman film director
Walter Ludinb. 1945CHSwiss priest
Atiqullah Ludinb. 1953AFAfghan army officer and politician
Fereshta Ludinb. 1972DEGerman-Afghan teacher
Jawed Ludinb. 1973AFAfghan diplomat

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

FormalDear Mr Ludin,

InformalHi Ludin,

Evidence

25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Ludin
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020	2020	303	#69,752
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010	2010	253	#76,029
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000	2000	217	#81,100
CH Switzerland	BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)	2024	147	#8,088
AF Afghanistan	Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names	—	3	#21
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)	—	—	—

Reference works 3

Dictionary of American Family Names
Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ludin mean, and where does it come from?: from a pet form of the personal name Ludwig. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Ludin?: It depends on the language: in Malay /ludin/; in Indonesian /ludin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Ludin have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Ludin in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Ludin?: In Switzerland, the national register counted 254 people named Ludin in 2024, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ludin

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 2026-10-13 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, “Ludin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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