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Ludvik

Boys' name

Famed; loud, through Ludvig

Ludvik has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1914, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Ludvik, 1914

1 in 236,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ludvik: meaning, origin, and history

Famed; loud, through Ludvig

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ludvik means

Ludvik belongs to the name family reached through Ludvik → Ludvig → Ludwig. Its meaning is “famed; loud”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ludvik is used in Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ludvig and Ludwig.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Ludvik is pronounced /ˈludʋik/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Ludvik between 1912 and 1914. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1914; its best national rank was #2,761 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 Ludvik?

Ludvik had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1914, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1914
1 in 236,000
6 of 1,416,309 births
Among boys only
1 in 109,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1914
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
163,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ludvik 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 1914 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 163,620 children born in 1914 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ludvik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ludviks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ludvik was born before 1914 — so the typical Ludvik is around 111 today.

Median birth year
1914
About 111 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Ludvik 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 1914 (6)
Years since peak
111
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#2,761
1912

Spellings of Ludvik

Ludvik is not the most common spelling — Ludwig is, with 55.8% against Ludvik's 0.23%.

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.

Ludvik around the world

Where Ludvik 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
    1989–1992
    #2,366
    in 1992
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #95
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1958–1958
    #433
    in 1958

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

Ludvik 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
#2,761
1912
Peak year
1914
6 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1914
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ludvik

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

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Sibling names for Ludvik

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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