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Ludovica

Girls' name

English equivalent of Louise

Ludovica has been given to 42 babies in the U.S. since 2015. 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 2021, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Ludovica, 2024

1 in 669,000

Ludovica over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ludovica: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Louise

Latin

What Ludovica means

Ludovica is a English equivalent of Louise.

Origin, language, and formation

Ludovica is used in Italian. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Louise.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Ludovica is pronounced /lu.doˈvi.ka/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 42 girls were recorded with the name Ludovica between 2015 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2021; its best national rank was #10,782 in 2021.

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 Ludovica?

Ludovica had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ludovica 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ludovica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ludovicas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ludovica was born before 2021 — so the typical Ludovica is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
76.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
42
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 76.2% of all recorded uses (32).

Is Ludovica 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2021 (9)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,782
2021

Ludovica around the world

Where Ludovica 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
    2010–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    1908–2025
    #5,975
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ludovica 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
—
Best rank ever
#10,782
2021
Peak year
2021
9 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
42
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ludovica

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

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Sibling names for Ludovica

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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