Given name & surname · also Latin
Ludovic
“devotee of the Lord”
Ludovic is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “devotee of the Lord.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “devotee of the Lord.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
How it developed
From French Ludovic, from Medieval Latin Lūdovīcus.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Ludovic is a variant of Louis. The history of Louis gives this family its wider story. Louis has a history of use among French royal or aristocratic families.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Ludovic through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 49
- 49 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 499 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ludovic’s family of names
Ludovic has a short form in Ludo. In French usage, Ludovic shares an earlier linguistic root with Louis. Ludovic has a related form in Lewis.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ludovic has relatives in 9 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
8 related names in 9 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 27
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Luisequivalent
- Luigiequivalent
- Clovisequivalent
- Ludwigsee also · German
- LudovicoPortuguese, Italian
- Ludvikequivalent
- Ludvigequivalent
- Ludovicafeminine form
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- LudwikPolish
- Loeizequivalent
- Clóvisequivalent
- Lluísequivalent
- Ludovicusequivalent
- Loïckequivalent
- Lewysequivalent
- Ljudevitequivalent
- Ľudovítequivalent
- Ludovikoequivalent
- Lajosequivalent
- Chlodwigequivalent
- Loïcequivalent
- Clodoveoequivalent
- Maoldòmhnaichequivalent
- ΛουδοβίκοςGreek
- LuísPortuguese
- Ludovickequivalent
- ЛюдовикRussian
People named Ludovic
- Ludovic GiulyFrench footballer (born 1976)
- Ludovic MagninSwiss football player and managerborn 1979
- Ludovic Orban68th Prime Minister of Romania (2019-2020)born 1963
- Ludovic ObraniakPolish-French footballerborn 1984
- Ludovic HalévyFrench writer (1834–1908)
- Ludovic FabregasFrench handball playerborn 1996
- Lamine SanéSenegalese and French footballerborn 1987
- Ludo CoeckBelgian association football player (1955–1985)
- Ludovic BlasFrench footballerborn 1997
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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