Ludy
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ludy has been given to 233 babies in the U.S. since 1898. 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 1921, with 16 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% girls, 9% boys all-time.
Babies named Ludy, 1988
1 in 739,000
Ludy over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Ludy over time
In 1988, Ludy went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Ludy?
Ludy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1988
- 1 in 739,000
- 5 of 3,694,212 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 356,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1988
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 512,128 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ludy sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1988 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 512,128 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ludy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ludys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ludy was born before 1922 — so the typical Ludy is around 103 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 36.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 9.4%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 30
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 36.8% of all recorded uses (78).
Is Ludy 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1921 (16)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.0% average annual change
Spellings of Ludy
Ludy is not the most common spelling — Judy is, with 23.4% against Ludy's 0.01%.
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.
Ludy around the world
Where Ludy 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.
- France2000–2000#4,753in 2000
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Ludy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Ludy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ludy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.