Ludy
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ludy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a pet form of Ludwig.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 466K
- COColombia≈1 in 10K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 210 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Luedy in CN China.
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 Ludwig.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ludy 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Ludy | 49 |
| CN China | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 268K | — | Luedy | 7 |
| CO Colombia | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 8 | — | 2 |
| VE Venezuela | 1,184 | 1 in 24K | 1.2K | — | — |
| US United States | 714 | 1 in 466K | 899 | Ludy | 210 |
| PE Peru | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Ludy | 19 |
| IS Iceland | 3 | 1 in 117K | 3 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Ludy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of lud
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Friedrich Ludyb. 1823DEGerman printmaker (1823–1890)
- Fritz Emil Lüdyb. 1865CH(1865-1936)
- Fritz Lüdyb. 1897CH(1897-1980)
- Eric Ludyb. 1970USAmerican writer
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 34 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 899 | #28,258 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 892 | #27,144 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 862 | #26,587 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Ludy mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of Ludwig. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How common is the name Ludy?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 1,184 people named Ludy, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- Is Ludy a male or female name?
- Ludy is a female 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.
- In which country does Ludy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.7 thousand people named Ludy in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ludy.
What do you want to know about Ludy?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ludyThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ludy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.