Ludmilla
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Slavic Ludmila, 'dear to the people' (lud- 'people' + mil- 'gracious')
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ludmillɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ludmilla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 33K
- USUnited States1 in 481K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 155 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
6,495 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
From Slavic Ludmila, 'dear to the people' (lud- 'people' + mil- 'gracious').
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ludmilla 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 | 6,495 | 1 in 33K | 6.5K | Ludmilla | 114 |
| DE Germany | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 1 | Ludmilla | 105 |
| FR France | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 1.4K | — | 3 |
| US United States | 692 | 1 in 481K | 692 | Ludmilla | 155 |
| IT Italy | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 135K | 2 | Ludmilla | 16 |
| AT Austria | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 11 | Ludmilla | 21 |
| EE Estonia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 637 | Ludmilla | 6 |
| AL Albania | 92 | 1 in 33K | 92 | — | — |
6,495 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); the ee-stat-nimed 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)
Ludmilla 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 French, Slave origin; from Slavic *Ljudmila*, meaning « aimée du peuple ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Slave, «aimée du peuple».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Amata dal popolo
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Russian, var of Liudmila.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Lyudmila Rudenkob. 1904UAnot in their usual nameSoviet chess player (1904-1986)
- Lyudmila Pavlichenkob. 1916UAnot in their usual nameSoviet sniper (1916–1974)
- Lyudmila Zykinab. 1929RUnot in their usual nameRussian folk singer (1929-2009)
- Lyudmila Gurchenkob. 1935RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian theater and film actress, singer, composer, director (1935—2011)
- Lyudmila Petrushevskayab. 1938RUnot in their usual nameRussian writer
- Lyudmila Ulitskayab. 1943RUnot in their usual nameRussian writer
- Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkinab. 1948RUnot in their usual nameUkrainian astronomer
- Ludmilla Tourischevab. 1952UASoviet-Ukrainian artistic gymnast (born 1952)
- Lyudmila Putinab. 1958RUnot in their usual nameRussian linguist and 1983–2013 wife of Russian president Vladimir Putin (born 1958)
- Ludmila Engquistb. 1964RUnot in their usual nameRussian-Swedish hurdler and bobsledder
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 56 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 6.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 6.5K | #2,287 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 2.7K | #2,227 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.7K | #4,915 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2016 | 1.4K | #3,132 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 692 | #16,344 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 637 | #234 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 112 | — |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 92 | #3,022 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 33 | #2,287 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2016 | 11 | #1,916 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 6 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Ludmilla mean, and where does it come from?
- From Slavic Ludmila, 'dear to the people' (lud- 'people' + mil- 'gracious'). Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Ludmilla?
- A machine transcription gives /ludmillɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Ludmilla a male or female name?
- Ludmilla is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Ludmilla?
- In the etymology graph, Ludmila and Lyudmila are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ludmilla have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 6.5 thousand people named Ludmilla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ludmilla.
- How common is the name Ludmilla?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 6,495 people named Ludmilla in 2022, about 1 in 33 thousand 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/ludmillaThe 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, “Ludmilla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.