Ludie
Ludie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 395th, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191682 births
- Best rank
- #395in 1882
- Since 1880
- 2,957people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,687 girls have been named Ludie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 82 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 82 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1916, and the 1910s alone account for 22%. It has spent 45 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 270 boys have also been given it, 9.1% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1916, its biggest year
Ludie was the 758th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Ludie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Myrtlepeak 1918
- Oniepeak 1918
- Pearlpeak 1918
- Mayepeak 1921
- Gussiepeak 1918
- Zulapeak 1922
- Pinkiepeak 1920
- Ottiepeak 1917
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.