Ludvig
Ludvig reached its high-water mark in 1923 at number 3,822, and has been recorded 16 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1923.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Ludvig
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 16
- Estimated living today
- 0
- Median age today
- 102
- Peak year
- 1923
- Best rank
- 3,822nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1917
Notable Ludvigs
- Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754)Danish-Norwegian writer, philosopher and historian
- Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877)Finland’s national poet, author of Finland’s national anthem, Swedish-speaking writer and poet
- Carl Ludvig Engel (1778–1840)German architect
- Ludvig Nobel (1831–1888)Swedish businessman, humanitarian
- Ludvig Lorenz (1829–1891)Danish mathematician and physicist
- Ludvig Faddeev (1934–2017)Russian mathematician and physicist
- Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier (1862–1934)Swedish astronomer and statistical botanist
- Ludvig Öhman (born 1991)Swedish association football player
People named Ludvig with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1923
The most popular boys’ names the year Ludvig peaked:
Ludvig elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden boys | Ludvig | 13,703 | 20th |
| Norway boys | Ludvig | 3,605 | 13th |
| France boys | Ludvig | 30 | 2,747th |
| Poland boys | Ludvig | 2 birth registrations | 663rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ludvig among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Ludvig | 189 | 549 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Ludvig against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.