Lude
loc · Latin script
Meaning: subst., termen vechi administrativ (Condica de liude"), reprezinta pluralul slay momne oameni", luat ca singular In limba romina lude sau liude, pl
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lude is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 124K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 149K
- FRFrance≈1 in 416K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- 1 in 124K (inferred from the name graph)
≈540 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Luede in US United States and Lüde in DE Germany.
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)
subst., termen vechi administrativ (Condica de liude"), reprezinta pluralul slay momne oameni", luat ca singular In limba romina lude sau liude, pl. tun/ birnic(i)". 1. Ludescu, Stoica cronicarul semneazA Liudescu (Ard II 145 ; Sd XV 275) ; Liudesti s. (C 5tef ; Sur VII). 2. Luzesti s. mold. (Sur VIII). Lufrate v. Fr ate I 18.
Sources 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lude 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | Lüde | 51 |
| US United States | 210 | 1 in 1.6M | 251 | Luede | 143 |
| FR France | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 416K | 23 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 68 | 1 in 124K | 68 | — | 9 |
| BR Brazil | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 6.6M | 110 | — | — |
| CL Chile | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 1M | 1 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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)
Lude 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 Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of lūdō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In apb, to carry cargo, to load a canoe, to be heavily laden
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Italian, third-person singular present indicative of ludere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A pill containing the drug methaqualone.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, inflection of ludir:
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)
- Lude Wareingb. 1915CACanadian ice hockey player
- Mike Ludeb. 1922USAmerican football and baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator
- Sigrid Ludeb. 2000DEGerman writer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 110 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 84 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 80 | #25,783 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 61 | #38,609 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 49 | #38,609 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 48 | #48,934 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 38 | #34,466 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 26 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2020 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1983 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1971 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1960 | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Lude mean?
- Recorded meaning: subst., termen vechi administrativ (Condica de liude"), reprezinta pluralul slay momne oameni", luat ca singular In limba romina lude sau liude, pl.
- In which country does Lude have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 537 people named Lude in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lüde.
- Where is Lude most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lude is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 124 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lude?
- In the United States, the national register counted 210 people named Lude in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ludeThe 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, “Lude”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.