Ludovic

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ludovic is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common given name. Recorded meaning: French form of Ludwig, from Germanic hlud + wig, 'famous battle'.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 31as Luis(measured from records)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 57as Luis
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 61as Luis

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 Ludovic 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)

1,335,098 named Luiz, 2022

#35 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
632 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 31 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador, as Luis

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LuisLatin(measured from records)
לואיסHebrew(measured from records)
ลอยThai(measured from records)
ΛουηςGreek(measured from records)
라이스Hangul(measured from records)
ლუისGeorgian(measured from records)
ԼուիArmenian(measured from records)
ЛуивиCyrillic(measured from records)

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Luis in PE Peru, BR Brazil, CO Colombia and 2 more, Louis in US United States and Lüïs in GT Guatemala.

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)

French form of Ludwig, from Germanic hlud + wig, 'famous battle'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ludovic 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.

Where Ludovic is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#151,335,098as Luiz1 in 1591.3MLuis267
CO Colombia#6≈660,000 est.≈1 in 75594Luis246
PE Peru#3≈560,000 est.≈1 in 57557KLuis190
EC Ecuador#2539,474as Luis1 in 31539KLuis157
US United States#101489,968as Luis1 in 679532KLouis632
GT Guatemala—≈210,000 est.≈1 in 83494KLüïs152
CR Costa Rica#183,998as Luis1 in 6184KLuis173

1,335,098 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling luiz. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENIEC — DNI population names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; RENAP — annual births; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ludovic is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Belgium, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Lûdôvîc, Lûdõvíc

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Brazil, United States, Portugal

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Lúdovic, Ludòvic

  • Polish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Slovakia, Belgium, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Ludovič

  • Croatian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian

    Also written Лудовиц

68 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ludovic is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Germanic name meaning « glorious fighter ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • From Latin Ludovicus, the form used in medieval documents to represent the Germanic name Hludwig (see pLouis). In the west of Scotland it came to be used as an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Maol Domhnaich, pronounced ‘meel dauv-nach’ and meaning ‘devotee of the Lord’, probably because both contain the same succession of consonants: I-d-v-c(h). Short form: Ludo.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In French, Variante de Louis; origine germanique, signifie « glorieux vainqueur ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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)

18001850190019502000Ludovic Halévy, b. 1834Ludovic Kennedy, b. 1919Bruno Martini, b. 1962Ludovic Orban, b. 1963Ludovic Giuly, b. 1976Ludovic Magnin, b. 1979Ludovic Obraniak, b. 1984Ludovic Sané, b. 1987Ludovic Ajorque, b. 1994Ludovic Blas, b. 1997

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 57 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Ludovic
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020499#20,632
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—34#36,851
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202224—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—23#109,849
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20225—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—2#33,528
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)19911—

Reference works 2

  • 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 Ludovic mean, and where does it come from?
French form of Ludwig, from Germanic hlud + wig, 'famous battle'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
In which country does Ludovic have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.3 million people named Luiz, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ludovic most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Ludovic itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Ecuador's: the national register counts about 1 in 31 people named Luis.
Is Ludovic a male or female name?
Ludovic is a male 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 Ludovic?
In the etymology graph, Louie, Gino and Alois are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Ludovic?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,335,098 people named Luiz in 2022, about 1 in 159 residents.
How common is Ludovic compared with other names?
In Brazil, Ludovic is the 15th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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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, “Ludovic” — the 15th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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