# Ludovico (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ludovico/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 47 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 47 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 109, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | 11,610 |
| 2019 | 5 | 13,357 |
| 2021 | 7 | 10,373 |
| 2022 | 9 | 8,721 |
| 2023 | 6 | 11,707 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10,515 |
| 2025 | 7 | 10,283 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4 | 3,865 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3,822 |
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2017 | 8 | 2,512 |
| 2018 | 7 | 2,693 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,228 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,017 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2023 | 9 | 2,325 |
| 2024 | 7 | 2,921 |
| 2025 | 8 | 2,664 |

## People named Ludovico

- Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan
- Ludovico Carracci, Bolognese painter of the Baroque (1555-1619)
- Ludovico Manin, 120th, and the last, Doge of Venice
- Ludovico Ludovisi, Catholic cardinal (1595-1632)
- Ludovico Bidoglio, Argentine footballer (1900-1970)
- Ludovico Avio, Argentine footballer (1932-1996)
- Ludovico Micara, Catholic cardinal
- Ludovico Trevisan, Catholic cardinal
- Ludovico Donato, Catholic cardinal
- Luigi Jacobini, Catholic cardinal (1832-1887)
- Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, Italian-French prince (1539-1595)
- Caelius Rhodiginus, 15th/16th century Venetian writer and professor in Greek and Latin

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.