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Ludovica

Ludovica reached its high-water mark in 2021 at number 10,292, and has been recorded 42 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 40 Ludovicas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 4.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Ludovica

By the numbers

Total US births
42
Estimated living today
40
Median age today
4
Peak year
2021
Best rank
10,292nd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
2015

How old the living Ludovicas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 42 babies given the name since 2015, about 40 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2021 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Names of 2021

The most popular girls’ names the year Ludovica peaked:

All the names of 2021

Ludovica elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Italy girls Ludovica 50,660
Switzerland girls Ludovica 191 289th
France girls Ludovica 70 5,975th
England and Wales girls Ludovica 52 2,488th
Poland girls Ludovica 4 birth registrations 724th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Ludovica: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Ludovica 44 0.004% 580th
French girls Switzerland Ludovica 26 0.006% 308th
Italian girls Switzerland Ludovica 120 0.184% 6th
Romansh girls Switzerland Ludovica 1 0.027% 6th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Ludovica is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.18% of children were given it – 115 of them.

Ludovica: rank by region

In 2024, Ludovica was among the 10 most common names in 18 regions of Italy.

Region Spelling Place Children
Piemonte Ludovica 10 185
Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste Ludovica 5 4
Lombardia Ludovica 7 545
Provincia Autonoma di Trento Ludovica 8 24
Veneto Ludovica 9 206
Liguria Ludovica 9 55
Emilia-Romagna Ludovica 8 193
Umbria Ludovica 3 57
Marche Ludovica 8 57
Lazio Ludovica 8 305
Abruzzo Ludovica 9 49
Molise Ludovica 10 8
Campania Ludovica 4 515
Puglia Ludovica 8 201
Basilicata Ludovica 7 22
Calabria Ludovica 7 97
Sicilia Ludovica 8 329
Sardegna Ludovica 8 56

In 2024, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Ludovica appears in the lists for Sud (6th), Centro (7th), Isole (7th), Nord-est (9th) and Nord-ovest (10th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Ludovica by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 2 548th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Ludovica among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
the Netherlands girls Ludovica 400 1,995
the Netherlands boys Ludovica 48
Finland girls Ludovica 7

Among girls in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 1,995 who carry it, 400 go by it.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Ludovica lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 222 women called Ludovica were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Ludovica 23 0.041 1,786
Balears, Illes Ludovica 14 0.022 2,285
Barcelona Ludovica 56 0.018 2,384
Toledo Ludovica 6 0.016 2,323
Palmas, Las Ludovica 9 0.015 4,039
Almería Ludovica 5 0.013 3,025

Listed in 9 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 43 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.