Ludean
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ludean has been given to 154 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 1925, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Ludean, 1953
1 in 642,000
Ludean 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ludean?
Ludean had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1953, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1953
- 1 in 642,000
- 6 of 3,852,460 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 313,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1953
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 445,055 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ludean sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1953 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 445,055 children born in 1953 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ludean. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ludeans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ludean was born before 1931 — so the typical Ludean is around 94 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 46.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 63.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 11
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 46.8% of all recorded uses (72).
Is Ludean 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 1925 (11)
- Years since peak
- 100
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.2% average annual change
Spellings of Ludean
Ludean is not the most common spelling — Dean is, with 34.1% against Ludean's 1.8%.
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 Ludean is used
Across 1910–2025, Ludean was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 60,500 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Utah1 in 50,000
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. Ludean has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ludean by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ludean
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ludean
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.