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Ludmilla

Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Lyudmila

Ludmilla has been given to 242 babies in the U.S. since 1907. 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 1922, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Ludmilla, 2005

1 in 641,000

Ludmilla over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ludmilla: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Lyudmila

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ludmilla means

Ludmilla is a alternate transcription of Lyudmila.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ludmilla is used in Russian and Bulgarian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /lʲʊd.ˈmʲi.ɫə/ for Ludmilla.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ludmilla → Lyudmila → Людмила → Ludmila. The family’s proposed meaning is “people + dear, nice, gentle”, recorded in Czech with the source elements ľudъ and milъ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lyudmila.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 242 girls were recorded with the name Ludmilla between 1907 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1922; its best national rank was #1,682 in 1912.

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 Ludmilla?

Ludmilla had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 641,000
6 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
444,107 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ludmilla 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 2005 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 444,107 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ludmilla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ludmillas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ludmilla was born before 1920 — so the typical Ludmilla is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
42.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1910s — 42.6% of all recorded uses (103).

Is Ludmilla 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
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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 1922 (16)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,682
1912

Spellings of Ludmilla

Ludmilla is not the most common spelling — Lucilla is, with 79.8% against Ludmilla's 20.2%.

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 Ludmilla is used

Across 1910–2025, Ludmilla was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,460,088 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 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. Ludmilla has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ludmilla around the world

Where Ludmilla 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
    1926–2024
    #6,419
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1951–1966
    #658
    in 1966

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ludmilla 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
#1,682
1912
Peak year
1922
16 that year
First recorded
1907
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
242
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ludmilla

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

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Sibling names for Ludmilla

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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