Ludie

Last seen for girls in 1964 at #6,009 · Last seen for boys in 1970 at #4,724
Given to girls 90.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
1882 · 21 births
Debut · girls
15 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,687
since 1880

Ludie over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201890peak #389, 1882peak #1,066, 1892girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1950#3,6629—
1949#2,72614#3,0197
1948#2,49116—
1947#2,63715#2,35611
1946#2,39216—
1945#1,87420#3,3385
1944#1,86721—
1943#1,99419—
1942#1,80422#3,5605
1941#2,09616—
1940#1,74521#3,4595
1939#1,88118#3,4805
1938#1,75220#3,1756
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1936#1,69120#3,5495
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1934#1,44026#3,2776
1933#1,10240#2,36810
1932#1,23734#3,3616
1931#1,31431#3,0957
1930#1,14442#3,2897
1929#1,33932#3,5596
1928#1,22339#3,3577
1927#1,16144#2,9129
1926#1,02353#2,9049
1925#91366#2,58811
1924#96263#3,5057
1923#1,02754#2,9509
1922#91764#3,2528
1921#88570#2,80410
1920#87269#2,9679
1919#85866#2,06315
1918#90063#2,54311
1917#91657#3,2177
1916#75082#2,15213
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1914#71465#2,9156
1913#78245#2,2737
1912#58269#1,8858
1911#74134#1,7405
1910#67939#1,3147
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First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Ludie was already there! It came in at #435, and was given to 15 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1957, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Ludie is popular in 1890

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Ludie
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1964
  • Biggest jump: 159 spots in 1912 (#741 → #582)
  • Biggest drop: 205 spots in 1893 (#409 → #614)
Rise & fade · girls
2 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1882 at #389 (21 births)
  • Births halved by 1950, 68 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 45 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 45 yrs · run 1880–1922
Share of babies · girls
1 in 4,759
  • Highest: 1 in 4,759 girls born in 1890 were named Ludie (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 315,809 girls born in 1964 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #389 in 1882, was only 1 in 5,136 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1910s
  • 21.8% of all girls named Ludie (585) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1970
  • Mostly girls until 1969, mostly boys since
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DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s209#389 (1882)#462
1890s344#400 (1890)#488
1900s450#470 (1903)#509
1910s585#582 (1912)#773
1920s554#872 (1920)#1,032
1930s278#1,102 (1933)#1,470
1940s180#1,745 (1940)#2,163
1950s76#3,482 (1951)#4,229
1960s11#6,009 (1964)#6,288

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Ludie in 1890

girls
#400
40 births · 1 in 4,759 girls

Top girls' names in 1890

  1. #1Mary12,078
  2. #2Anna5,233
  3. #3Elizabeth3,112
  4. #4Margaret3,100
  5. #5Emma2,980
  6. #6Florence2,744
  7. #7Ethel2,718
  8. #8Minnie2,650
  9. #9Clara2,496
  10. #10Bertha2,388
  11. #400Ludie40
More about 1890

girls

190,377 girls got a published name in 1890; 1 in 4,759 of them was named Ludie, which outranked 73.9% of the 1,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ludie
  1. #397Dixie41
  2. #397Inga41
  3. #397Mazie41
  4. #400Ludie40
  5. #400Annabelle40
  6. #400Ellie40
  7. #400Liza40
  8. #406Eda39
  9. #406Lauretta39
  10. #406Nan39

Tied with 5 names at #400; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1889
Risers
  1. ↑ 612Electa#1,279 → #667
  2. ↑ 586Lular#1,279 → #693
  3. ↑ 548Alvena#1,147 → #599
  4. ↑ 521Prudie#1,279 → #758
  5. ↑ 505Tempie#1,147 → #642
Fallers
  1. ↓ 581Lella#757 → #1,338
  2. ↓ 581Vira#757 → #1,338
  3. ↓ 553Buena#657 → #1,210
  4. ↓ 536Roxana#802 → #1,338
  5. ↓ 499Fleda#839 → #1,338

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1890 →