Lyudvig
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lyudvig is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 140Kas Людвиг(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia≈1 in 2.7M
- SESweden1 in 525as Ludvig
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lyudvig itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7M (inferred from the name graph)
19,435 named Ludvig
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Людвиг in RU Russia, FI Finland, ZW Zimbabwe, Ludwig in US United States, Ludvig in SE Sweden and Լյուդվիգ in AM Armenia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lyudvig 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 | — | 19,435as Ludvig | 1 in 525 | 19K | Ludvig | 5 |
| NO Norway | — | 3,663as Ludvig | 1 in 1.5K | 13K | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 2,224as Ludvig | 1 in 2.6K | 2.2K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 1,572as Ludwig | 1 in 212K | 22K | Ludwig | 23 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 140K | #821 | Людвиг | 109 |
| AM Armenia | #469 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Լյուդվիգ | 16 |
| FI Finland | — | 546as Ludvig | 1 in 10K | 1.9K | Людвиг | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | 172 | — | — |
| ZW Zimbabwe | #114 | — | — | — | Людвиг | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Lyudvig a male or female name?
- Lyudvig 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.
- In which country does Lyudvig have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Ludvig, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Lyudvig?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 19,435 people named Ludvig, about 1 in 525 residents.
- How common is Lyudvig compared with other names?
- In Zimbabwe, Lyudvig is the 114th most common given name of 4,125 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lyudvig?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lyudvigThe 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, “Lyudvig” — the 114th most common given name in Zimbabwe. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.