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Ludie

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Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Ludie has been given to 2,957 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1916, with 82 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% girls, 9% boys all-time.

Babies named Ludie, 1964

1 in 648,000

Ludie over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Ludie over time

In 1970, Ludie went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

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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.

Ludie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ludie means

Ludie is a given name.

The naming story behind Ludie

Wikidata records Ludie as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q138387415, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,687 girls were recorded with the name Ludie between 1880 and 1964. Its highest annual count was 82 in 1916; its best national rank was #395 in 1882.

In the United States, 270 boys were recorded with the name Ludie between 1892 and 1970. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1919; its best national rank was #1,182 in 1892.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Ludie?

Ludie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1964, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1964
1 in 648,000
6 of 3,887,460 births
Among girls only
1 in 316,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1964
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
449,098 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ludie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1964 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 449,098 children born in 1964 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ludie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ludies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ludie was born before 1916 — so the typical Ludie is around 109 today.

Median birth year
1916
About 109 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
21.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
87
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1910s — 21.8% of all recorded uses (585).

Is Ludie 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 1916 (82)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#395
1882

Spellings of Ludie

Ludie is not the most common spelling — Julie is, with 33.9% against Ludie's 0.18%.

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 Ludie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Ludie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 39,505 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 11,111
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 16,667
  3. 3Georgia1 in 25,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 50,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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. Ludie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Ludie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Ludie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 95,474 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000

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. Ludie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ludie around the world

Where Ludie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2005–2005
    #5,684
    in 2005

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ludie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#395
1882
Peak year
1916
82 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1964
All-time count
2,687
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,182
1892
Peak year
1919
15 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
1970
All-time count
270
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ludie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Ludie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ludie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ludie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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