Luddie
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Luddie has been given to 224 babies in the U.S. since 1890. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1919, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.
Babies named Luddie, 1947
1 in 720,000
Luddie over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Luddie over time
In 1947, Luddie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Luddie?
Luddie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1947, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1947
- 1 in 720,000
- 5 of 3,602,100 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 355,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1947
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 499,358 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Luddie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1947 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 499,358 children born in 1947 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Luddie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Luddies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Luddie was born before 1919 — so the typical Luddie is around 106 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 37.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 36.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 37.3% of all recorded uses (75).
Is Luddie rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1919 (12)
- Years since peak
- 106
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.8% average annual change
Spellings of Luddie
Luddie is not the most common spelling — Addie is, with 45.0% against Luddie's 0.20%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Luddie is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Luddie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 411,993 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Luddie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Luddie is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Luddie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 630,130 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Luddie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Luddie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Luddie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Luddie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.