Lud
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Represents the eponymous ancestor of the Semitic Lydian people within the biblical genealogy of nations
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/lud/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lud is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 87Mas Lued(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 2.2M
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lud itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.2M (inferred from the name graph)
98 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Represents the eponymous ancestor of the Semitic Lydian people within the biblical genealogy of nations.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lud counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 98 | 1 in 2.2M | 98 | — | 1 |
| PH Philippines | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 5.5M | — | Lud | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | Lud | 5 |
| US United States | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 87M | — | Lud | 116 |
| PE Peru | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Lud | 7 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
98 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lud is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, lord (used in addressing a judge)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In enm, alternative form of lede (“people”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, soft mutation of glud (“glue”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dsb, people (group of persons forming or belonging to a particular nation etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lud Nijmanb. 1940SRbadminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 98 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 74 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 58 | #41,927 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 46 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 40 | #41,927 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 38 | #34,465 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 36 | #42,596 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 28 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 24 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 23 | #58,802 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5 | #27,027 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #83,684 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lud mean, and where does it come from?
- Represents the eponymous ancestor of the Semitic Lydian people within the biblical genealogy of nations. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Lud?
- A machine transcription gives /lud/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Lud a male or female name?
- Lud is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Lud have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 98 people named Lud, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lud most common?
- Lud is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.2 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lud?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 98 people named Lud in 2022, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Lud?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ludThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lud”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.