Ludvig
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Swedish: The letter "L" in the Swedish spelling alphabet
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/l̪ɵd̪ʋɪɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ludvig is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Greenland it is the 30th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 525(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 1.5K
- DKDenmark1 in 2.6K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- 1 in 525 (inferred from the name graph)
19,435 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
a male given name, equivalent to English Louis or German Ludwig
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ludvig is read(measured from records)
Ludvig is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 4 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Swedish45%
The letter "L" in the Swedish spelling alphabet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Finnish17%
Louis, Luis, Ludwig; used to translate certain regal names.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English12%
Scandinavian; a famous warrior.
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- Danish8.7%
a male given name, equivalent to English Louis or German Ludwig
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Norwegian7.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ludvig in Norwegian.
- Portuguese5.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ludvig in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ludvig 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #277 | 19,435 | 1 in 525 | 19K | Ludvig | 124 |
| NO Norway | #707 | 3,663 | 1 in 1.5K | 13K | Ludvig | 52 |
| DK Denmark | #707 | 2,224 | 1 in 2.6K | 2.2K | Ludvig | 77 |
| BJ Benin | #592 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Ludvig | 5 |
| FI Finland | — | 546 | 1 in 10K | 1.9K | Ludvig | 10 |
| GL Greenland | #30 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 121 | Ludvig | 6 |
19,435 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5). 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)
- Louis the Germanb. 806DEnot in their usual nameKing of East Francia from 843 to 876
- Louis III le Jeuneb. 835DEnot in their usual nameKing of East Francia
- Louis IV l'Enfantb. 893DEnot in their usual nameKing of East Francia and Lotharingia
- Ludwig van Beethovenb. 1770DEnot in their usual nameGerman composer (1770-1827)
- Wilhelm Ib. 1797DEnot in their usual name19th-century German Emperor and King of Prussia (1797–1888)
- Wilhelm Liebknechtb. 1826DEnot in their usual nameGerman journalist, writer and socialist politician (1826–1900)
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchnerb. 1880DEnot in their usual nameGerman painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker (1880–1938)
- Ludwig Erhardb. 1897DEnot in their usual nameChancellor of West Germany (1963–1966)
- Theodor Adornob. 1903DEnot in their usual nameGerman philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903–1969)
- Alan Garcíab. 1949PEnot in their usual namePresident of Peru (1985–1990 and 2006–2011)
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)
Attested in 46 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 184 | #2,793 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #36,696 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #51,636 |
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 Ludvig come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Louis or German Ludwig Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Ludvig?
- In the etymology graph, Louie, Gino and Alois are forms of the same name in other languages; Ludde is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Ludvig?
- A machine transcription gives /l̪ɵd̪ʋɪɡ/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Ludvig have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Ludvig, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ludvig.
- Where is Ludvig most common?
- Ludvig is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 525 people carrying it.
- What does the name Ludvig mean?
- In Swedish, The letter "L" in the Swedish spelling alphabet
- Is Ludvig a male or female name?
- Ludvig is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Ludvig?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 19,435 people named Ludvig, about 1 in 525 residents.
- How common is Ludvig compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Ludvig is the 277th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ludvig?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ludvigThe 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, “Ludvig” — the 277th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.