Ludwig

At the 2020 census, 21,232 Americans bore the surname Ludwig — 1,649th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 14,100.

By the numbers

People: 21,232
Rank: 1,649th
How common: 1 in 14,100
Per 100,000: 7.1

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ludwig described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Ludwig

Emil Ludwig (1881–1948)German writer
Alexander Ludwig (born 1992)Canadian actor, singer and model
Carl Ludwig (1816–1895)German physiologist
Christa Ludwig (1928–2021)German mezzo-soprano
Prince Karl Ludwig, Hereditary Prince of Baden (1755–1801)Heir apparent in the Margraviate of Baden
Otto Ludwig (1813–1865)German dramatist
Olaf Ludwig (born 1960)East German racing cyclist
Johannes Ludwig (born 1986)German luger

People named Ludwig with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Ludwig

Also a first name

Ludwig has been given to 2,696 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1916. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.