Ludin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Ludwig (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ludin/(machine-generated) Malay · model-generated
Ludin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 33Kfew 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 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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.
How to pronounce Ludin
- Malay:/ludin/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Indonesian:/ludin/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a pet form of the personal name Ludwig.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Ludin is found
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 3 | — | 8 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Ludin | 27 |
| DE Germany | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 225K | — | Ludin | 53 |
| CH Switzerland | 254 | 1 in 33K | 254 | Ludin | 20 |
| US United States | 253 | 1 in 1.3M | 303 | Ludin | 128 |
| CZ Czechia | 35 | 1 in 306K | 35 | — | — |
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); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hanns Ludinb. 1905DEGerman Nazi diplomat (1905-1947)
- Malte Ludinb. 1942DEGerman film director
- Fereshta Ludinb. 1972DEGerman-Afghan teacher
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
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?
- It depends on the language: in Malay /ludin/; in Indonesian /ludin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ludin?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Ludin in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ludin?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 254 people named Ludin in 2024, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ludin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ludinThe 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, “Ludin” — ranked 21st in Afghanistan (Wikidata humans by citizenship). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.