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Ludovico

#10,279 in 2025Boys' name

Loud, famous + battle

Ludovico has been given to 47 babies in the U.S. since 2018. In 2025 it ranked #10,279 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Ludovico, 2025

1 in 474,000

Ludovico over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ludovico: meaning, origin, and history

Loud, famous + battle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ludovico means

Ludovico means “loud, famous + battle”, associated with hlūdaz and wīgą.

Origin, language, and formation

Ludovico is used in Italian and Spanish.

Ludovico comes through Latin Ludovīcus, Old High German *Hlūtwīg and Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Louis, Ludwig and Luis.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Ludovico is pronounced /lu.doˈvi.ko/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 47 boys were recorded with the name Ludovico between 2018 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2022; its best national rank was #8,716 in 2022.

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 Ludovico?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,279
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ludovico sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ludovico. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ludovicos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ludovico was born before 2022 — so the typical Ludovico is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
76.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
47
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 76.6% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Ludovico 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
+231
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
77.8%
Peak was 2022 (9)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,716
2022

Ludovico around the world

Where Ludovico 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
    2001–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2022–2022
    #703
    in 2022
  • France
    1969–2023
    #4,236
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2020–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1956–1999
    #539
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Ludovico by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,279
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,716
2022
Peak year
2022
9 that year
First recorded
2018
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
47
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Ludovico

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

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Sibling names for Ludovico

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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