Ludie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ludie

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,687 babies named Ludie between 1880 and 1964, spanning 85 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ludie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1964. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 82 babies received it in a single year. Ludie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 270 additional births since 1892.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ludie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 585 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Ludie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 272 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Ludie in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ludie 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 2,687 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.