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Ludmila

#14,231 in 2025Girls' name

People + dear, nice, gentle

Ludmila has been given to 288 babies in the U.S. since 1904. In 2025 it ranked #14,231 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Ludmila, 2025

1 in 553,000

Ludmila over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ludmila: meaning, origin, and history

People + dear, nice, gentle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ludmila means

Ludmila means “people + dear, nice, gentle”, associated with ľudъ and milъ.

Origin, language, and formation

Ludmila is used in Czech and Latvian.

Ludmila comes through Proto-Slavic *ľudъ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Людми́ла.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Ludmila is pronounced [ˈludmɪla].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 288 girls were recorded with the name Ludmila between 1904 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1916; its best national rank was #2,048 in 1904.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,779 in 2020 to #14,231 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,066 in 2015 to #14,231 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ludmila?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,231
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ludmila 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 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ludmila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ludmilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ludmila was born before 2004 — so the typical Ludmila is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
22.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
193
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Ludmila 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
−4,261
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,452
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,835
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.9%
Peak was 1916 (14)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,048
1904

Spellings of Ludmila

Ludmila is not the most common spelling — Lucila is, with 89.6% against Ludmila's 10.4%.

  • Lucila89.6%2,483
  • Ludmila10.4%288

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.

Ludmila around the world

Where Ludmila 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.

  • England & Wales
    2013–2013
    #4,739
    in 2013
  • France
    1924–2025
    #2,827
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2010
    #3,238
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1951–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ludmila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,231
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,452
Best rank ever
#2,048
1904
Peak year
1916
14 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
288
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Ludmila

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

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Sibling names for Ludmila

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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