Ludin

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Ludwig

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ɫudɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
  • AFAfghanistan≈1 in 10K
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 32K

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.

Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,600 people, est.

Sources
128 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

Afghanistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

from a pet form of the personal name Ludwig.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

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
CountryMost common spellingSources
AF Afghanistan≈3,600 est.≈1 in 10K3—8
MY Malaysia≈1,000 est.≈1 in 32K—Ludin27
DE Germany≈330 est.≈1 in 243K—Ludin53
CH Switzerland2541 in 33K254Ludin20
US United States2531 in 1.3M303Ludin128
AT Austria≈45 est.≈1 in 198K—Ludin12

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(inferred from the name graph)

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(measured from records)

1850190019502000Friedrich Ludin, b. 1875Adolf Ludin, b. 1879Hanns Ludin, b. 1905Walter Ludin, b. 1908Hans-Peter Ludin, b. 1921Malte Ludin, b. 1942Walter Ludin, b. 1945Atiqullah Ludin, b. 1953Fereshta Ludin, b. 1972Jawed Ludin, b. 1973

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)

FormalDear Mr Ludin,
InformalHi Ludin,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Ludin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020303#69,752
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010253#76,029
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000217#81,100
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024147#8,088
AF AfghanistanWikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names—3#21
US United Stateswru 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.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

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?
A machine transcription gives /ɫudɪn/ (IPA) for English.
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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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, “Ludin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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