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Ludvig

Boys' name

English equivalent of Louis

Ludvig has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1923, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Ludvig, 1923

1 in 384,000

Ludvig over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ludvig: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Louis

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ludvig means

Ludvig is a English equivalent of Louis.

Origin, language, and formation

Ludvig is used in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Louis.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Ludvig between 1917 and 1923. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1923; its best national rank was #4,072 in 1923.

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 Ludvig?

Ludvig had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1923, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1923
1 in 384,000
6 of 2,302,410 births
Among boys only
1 in 183,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1923
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
265,986 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ludvig 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 1923 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 265,986 children born in 1923 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ludvig. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ludvigs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ludvig was born before 1918 — so the typical Ludvig is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
62.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 62.5% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Ludvig 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 1923 (6)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,072
1923

Spellings of Ludvig

Ludvig is not the most common spelling — Ludwig is, with 99.4% against Ludvig's 0.59%.

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.

Ludvig around the world

Where Ludvig 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
    1980–1996
    #2,747
    in 1996
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #13
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Norway. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Ludvig by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,072
1923
Peak year
1923
6 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1923
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ludvig

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

LudlowLudwikLuddieLudvikLudwingLudwinLudovicoLudyLudovicLudwellLuddyLudoHovigLudgerLudieLudwig

Sibling names for Ludvig

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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