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Lyudmila

Girls' name

Possibly people + dear, nice, gentle, through Людмила

Lyudmila has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 1995. 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 1995, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Lyudmila, 2024

1 in 669,000

Lyudmila over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lyudmila: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly people + dear, nice, gentle, through Людмила

Russian and Ukrainian

What Lyudmila means

Lyudmila belongs to the name family reached through Lyudmila → Людмила → Ludmila. Its meaning is “people + dear, nice, gentle”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Russian Людмила (Ljudmila) or Ukrainian Людмила (Ljudmyla).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Lyudmila (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Lyudmila is used in English. Its origins include Russian and Ukrainian.

Lyudmila comes through Russian Людмила and Ukrainian Людмила.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Людмила and Ludmila.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 27 girls were recorded with the name Lyudmila between 1995 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1995; its best national rank was #12,698 in 1995.

How common is Lyudmila?

Lyudmila had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lyudmila sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lyudmila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lyudmilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lyudmila was born before 2018 — so the typical Lyudmila is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
37.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
27
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 37.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Lyudmila 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 1995 (6)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#12,698
1995

Lyudmila around the world

Where Lyudmila 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
    2009–2014
    #6,759
    in 2014

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Lyudmila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,698
1995
Peak year
1995
6 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
27
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lyudmila

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

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Sibling names for Lyudmila

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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