Ludolph
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements leud
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ludolph is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 90K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 617K
- BSBahamas≈1 in 66K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 66K (inferred from the name graph)
≈890 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bahamas, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements leud. Hut ‘famous’ + H’M//‘wolf’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ludolph 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 | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Ludolph | 80 |
| US United States | — | 539 | 1 in 617K | 566 | Ludolph | 156 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 221K | — | Ludolph | 18 |
| PL Poland | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 465K | — | Ludolph | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 898K | — | Ludolph | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 224K | — | Ludolph | 1 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 353K | — | Ludolph | 1 |
| BS Bahamas | #491 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Ludolph | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
- Willie Ludolphb. 1900USAmerican baseball player (1900-1952)
- Albert C. Ludolphb. 1932DEGerman neurologist (1953-)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 566 | #41,459 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 539 | #40,554 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 483 | #42,289 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Ludolph come from?
- from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements leud. Hut ‘famous’ + H’M//‘wolf’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Ludolph mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements leud.
- In which country does Ludolph have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 892 people named Ludolph in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ludolph.
- How common is the name Ludolph?
- In the United States, the national register counted 539 people named Ludolph in 2010, about 1 in 617 thousand residents.
- How common is Ludolph compared with other names?
- In the Bahamas, Ludolph is the 491st most common surname of 3,175 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ludolphThe 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, “Ludolph” — the 491st most common surname in Bahamas. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.