Ludy
Ludy was last recorded in 1988, when 5 babies were given it; 233 Americans have been recorded with it between 1898 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ludy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ludy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,008, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1921, the peak
Ludy peaked in 1921, when 21 babies were given it (16 girls, #2,338 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | #13,008 | 2.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,420 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,507 | 3.0 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,589 | 3.4 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,651 | 2.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,167 | 2.7 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,770 | 2.8 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,336 | 4.5 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,807 | 5.8 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,697 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 6 | #4,338 | 5.3 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,138 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,280 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,428 | 7.6 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,894 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,260 | 5.6 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,204 | 5.8 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,889 | 10.0 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,338 | 13.0 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,497 | 7.5 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,764 | 10.4 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,943 | 6.5 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,642 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,203 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,488 | 8.0 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,269 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,044 | 17.7 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,250 | 15.7 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,783 | 21.8 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,846 | 19.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ludy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 233 Americans recorded as Ludy, 91% are girls and 9% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ludy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ludy, and how old are they?
An estimated 43 Americans named Ludy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 714 people named Ludy (606 women and girls, 108 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 55 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Ludy?
Ludy is a less common spelling of Ludie: SSA has recorded 233 Ludy and 2,957 Ludie since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,563 babies since 1880, Ludy is the third most given (6.5% 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 Ludy
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 Ludy and names like it
- Compare Ludy and LudieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLudy peaked in 1921.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Ludy.
- Names starting with LMost given first.