Loudes

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Lourdes in BR Brazil, MX Mexico, AR Argentina and 25 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 37 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Loudes is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Catalan given name536 records spelled Loudes10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Philippines

  Languages: Catalan, French

  Also written Lourdes, Lourdès, Lourdés, Loudès, Löűdës

• Indonesian given name28 records spelled Loudes4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, Spain, United States

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Lourdes

22 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.

Over time●

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Serge Loudesb. 1955FRFrench politician

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 44 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Loudes?

We estimate roughly 171 thousand people bear Loudes (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Loudes have the most bearers?

Loudes is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled lourdes.

How common is Loudes compared with other names?

In Mexico, Loudes is the 79th most common given name of 191,605 given names recorded there.

Is Loudes a male or female name?

Loudes 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.