Ludie
Ludie was last recorded in 1970, when 5 babies were given it; 2,957 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ludie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ludie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,455, in 1964; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
95 babies in 1916, the peak
Ludie peaked in 1916, when 95 babies were given it (82 girls, #758 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 6 | #6,455 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,141 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,495 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,822 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,062 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,591 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,493 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,439 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,692 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,631 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 9 | #3,836 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,797 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,558 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,710 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,443 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,919 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 21 | #1,894 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,044 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,839 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,147 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,773 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,927 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,784 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,435 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,721 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,748 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,467 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 40 | #1,116 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 34 | #1,250 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 31 | #1,325 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 42 | #1,150 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,359 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 39 | #1,230 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 44 | #1,169 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 53 | #1,028 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 66 | #919 | 0.05 |
| 1924 | 63 | #965 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 54 | #1,032 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 64 | #924 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 70 | #888 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 69 | #876 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 66 | #864 | 0.06 |
| 1918 | 63 | #908 | 0.05 |
| 1917 | 57 | #920 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 82 | #758 | 0.08 |
| 1915 | 65 | #816 | 0.07 |
| 1914 | 65 | #716 | 0.09 |
| 1913 | 45 | #788 | 0.07 |
| 1912 | 69 | #585 | 0.12 |
| 1911 | 34 | #749 | 0.08 |
| 1910 | 39 | #688 | 0.10 |
| 1909 | 46 | #570 | 0.13 |
| 1908 | 48 | #531 | 0.14 |
| 1907 | 51 | #501 | 0.16 |
| 1906 | 50 | #490 | 0.17 |
| 1905 | 43 | #523 | 0.15 |
| 1904 | 47 | #482 | 0.17 |
| 1903 | 46 | #473 | 0.18 |
| 1902 | 39 | #514 | 0.15 |
| 1901 | 31 | #553 | 0.13 |
| 1900 | 49 | #484 | 0.16 |
| 1899 | 36 | #495 | 0.15 |
| 1898 | 37 | #516 | 0.14 |
| 1897 | 37 | #474 | 0.16 |
| 1896 | 37 | #483 | 0.16 |
| 1895 | 32 | #527 | 0.14 |
| 1894 | 30 | #529 | 0.13 |
| 1893 | 22 | #620 | 0.10 |
| 1892 | 42 | #410 | 0.20 |
| 1891 | 31 | #468 | 0.17 |
| 1890 | 40 | #403 | 0.21 |
| 1889 | 35 | #414 | 0.20 |
| 1888 | 31 | #447 | 0.17 |
| 1887 | 23 | #468 | 0.16 |
| 1886 | 20 | #501 | 0.14 |
| 1885 | 20 | #478 | 0.15 |
| 1884 | 12 | #629 | 0.09 |
| 1883 | 19 | #445 | 0.17 |
| 1882 | 21 | #395 | 0.19 |
| 1881 | 13 | #479 | 0.14 |
| 1880 | 15 | #443 | 0.16 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ludie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,957 Americans recorded as Ludie, 91% are girls and 9% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ludie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ludie, and how old are they?
An estimated 266 Americans named Ludie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (9% of everyone recorded); the median is 81 years old and half are between 74 and 87. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 445 people named Ludie (376 women and girls, 69 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 414 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ludie born?
The states with the most babies named Ludie are Alabama, Georgia and Texas, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 305 | not ranked | 5.3× |
| Georgia | 175 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Texas | 135 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Mississippi | 123 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| North Carolina | 60 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 59 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Arkansas | 27 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 25 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Ludie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ludie is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1910 it was given 5.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ludie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,787 babies since 1880, Ludie is the most given (78% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ludie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ludie and names like it
- Compare Ludie and LudaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLudie peaked in 1916.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ludie since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Ludie.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Ludie alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with LMost given first.