Ludvig
given name · Norwegian Bokmål · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ludvig is a given name, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Greenland it is the 62nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Norwegian Bokmål and Danish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Louis or German Ludwig.
- SESweden1 in 525◐
- NONorway1 in 1.5K
- DKDenmark1 in 2.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈26K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 101 ●
- 1 in 525 ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
4.7K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
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●
a male given name, equivalent to English Louis or German Ludwig
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #267 | 19,435△ | 3K rec. | 1 in 525 | 19K | Ludvig | 101 |
| NO Norway | #324 | 3,663△ | 632 rec. | 1 in 1.5K | 13K | Ludvig | 44 |
| DK Denmark | #475 | 2,224△ | 292 rec. | 1 in 2.6K | 2.2K | Ludvig | 76 |
| FI Finland | — | 546△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 10K | 1.9K | Ludvig | 9 |
| US United States | — | 432 | 448 rec. | — | 6 | Ludvig | 54 |
| GL Greenland | #62 | 149 | 3 rec. | — | 121 | Ludvig | 7 |
| GE Georgia | — | 62 | 115 rec. | 1 in 64K | 62 | Ludvig | 8 |
| EE Estonia | — | 44 | 15 rec. | — | 23 | Ludvig | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 31 | 16 rec. | — | — | Ludvig | 17 |
| BR Brazil | — | 22 | — | 1 in 9.6M | 1.2K | — | — |
| BJ Benin | #502 | 19 | 20 rec. | — | — | Ludvig | 5 |
| PL Poland | — | 17 | — | 1 in 2.3M | 17 | — | — |
Roughly 19K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 525). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Norwegian Bokmål13K35%
- Danish7K19%
- Finnish6.3K17%
- Swedish4.7K12%
- English1.4K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Bokmål | 13,416 | 35% |
| Danish | 7,050 | 19% |
| Finnish | 6,288 | 17% |
| Swedish | 4,692 | 12% |
| English | 1,405 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Ludvig 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 Finnish, Louis, Luis, Ludwig; used to translate certain regal names.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, The letter "L" in the Swedish spelling alphabet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Scandinavian; a famous warrior.
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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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 8 |
| 1948 | 6 |
| 1949 | 10 |
| 1950 | 7 |
| 1951 | 8 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 4 |
| 1954 | 6 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 5 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1964 | 6 |
| 1965 | 4 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1983 | 7 |
| 1985 | 4 |
| 1987 | 8 |
| 1988 | 7 |
| 1989 | 8 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 14 |
| 1992 | 9 |
| 1993 | 18 |
| 1994 | 19 |
| 1995 | 19 |
| 1996 | 33 |
| 1997 | 19 |
| 1998 | 31 |
| 1999 | 37 |
| 2000 | 43 |
| 2001 | 42 |
| 2002 | 39 |
| 2003 | 44 |
| 2004 | 45 |
| 2005 | 52 |
| 2006 | 72 |
| 2007 | 80 |
| 2008 | 75 |
| 2009 | 76 |
| 2010 | 102 |
| 2011 | 142 |
| 2012 | 122 |
| 2013 | 132 |
| 2014 | 142 |
| 2015 | 154 |
| 2016 | 169 |
| 2017 | 157 |
| 2018 | 166 |
| 2019 | 138 |
| 2020 | 129 |
| 2021 | 186 |
| 2022 | 224 |
| 2023 | 212 |
| 2024 | 250 |
| 2025 | 262 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 60 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Louis the Germanb. 806DEnot in their usual nameKing of East Francia from 843 to 876
- Louis III le Jeuneb. 835DEnot in their usual nameKing of East Francia
- Louis IV l'Enfantb. 893DEnot in their usual nameKing of East Francia and Lotharingia
- Ludwig van Beethovenb. 1770DEnot in their usual nameGerman composer (1770-1827)
- Wilhelm Ib. 1797DEnot in their usual name19th-century German Emperor and King of Prussia (1797–1888)
- Wilhelm Liebknechtb. 1826DEnot in their usual nameGerman journalist, writer and socialist politician (1826–1900)
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchnerb. 1880DEnot in their usual nameGerman painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker (1880–1938)
- Ludwig Erhardb. 1897DEnot in their usual nameChancellor of West Germany (1963–1966)
- Theodor Adornob. 1903DEnot in their usual nameGerman philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903–1969)
- Alan Garcíab. 1949PEnot in their usual namePresident of Peru (1985–1990 and 2006–2011)
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●
Attested in 46 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 277 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ludvig?
- We estimate roughly 26 thousand people bear Ludvig (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ludvig have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 19 thousand people bear Ludvig in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ludvig.
- How common is Ludvig compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Ludvig is the 267th most common given name of 36,824 given names recorded there.
- Is Ludvig a male or female name?
- Ludvig 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 does the name Ludvig mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Louis or German Ludwig
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Ludvig” — the 267th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.