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Ludwik

Boys' name

Loud, famous + fight, battle, through *Hlūdawīg

Ludwik has been given to 23 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1920, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Ludwik, 1920

1 in 323,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ludwik: meaning, origin, and history

Loud, famous + fight, battle, through *Hlūdawīg

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ludwik means

Ludwik belongs to the name family reached through Ludwik → *Hlūdawīg. Its meaning is “loud, famous + fight, battle”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ludwik is used in Polish.

Ludwik comes through Old High German Ludhuwīg and Proto-West Germanic *Hlūdawīg.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Louis and *Hlūdawīg.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Ludwik is pronounced /ˈlu.dvik/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 23 boys were recorded with the name Ludwik between 1914 and 1920. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1920; its best national rank was #3,554 in 1914.

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.

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How common is Ludwik?

Ludwik had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1920, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1920
1 in 323,000
7 of 2,262,602 births
Among boys only
1 in 152,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1920
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
224,046 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ludwik 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 1920 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 224,046 children born in 1920 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ludwik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ludwiks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ludwik was born before 1919 — so the typical Ludwik is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
69.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 69.6% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Ludwik 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 1920 (7)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,554
1914

Spellings of Ludwik

Ludwik is not the most common spelling — Ludwig is, with 99.2% against Ludwik's 0.85%.

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.

Ludwik around the world

Where Ludwik 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
    2012–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • France
    1923–2001
    #3,615
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    1961–1961
    #561
    in 1961

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ludwik 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
#3,554
1914
Peak year
1920
7 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1920
All-time count
23
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ludwik

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

LuddieLudlowLudvigLudvikLudwingJaswikLudwinLudovicoLudovicLudyLudoRitwikLudgerLudwellLuddyDaiwikSathwikLudieLudwigAdwikRithwik

Sibling names for Ludwik

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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