Luddie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Luddie

The Social Security Administration has registered 201 babies named Luddie between 1890 and 1947, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Luddie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1947. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Luddie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 23 additional births since 1918.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Luddie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 75 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Luddie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Luddie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Luddie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 201 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.