# Ludvík (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ludvik/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 11 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1912 | 5 | 2,762 |
| 1914 | 6 | 3,120 |

## People named Ludvík

- Ludvík Svoboda, Czechoslovak general and politician (1895-1979)
- Ludvík Daněk, Czechoslovak discus thrower (1937–1998)
- Ludvík Vaculík, Czech publicist, politic writer and bookwriter (1926-2015)
- Ludvík Kuba, Czech landscape painter, musician, writer, professor in the Academy of Fine Arts (1863-195
- Ludvík Kundera, Czech poet, playwright, translator and writer (1920-2010)
- Ludvík Vébr, Czechoslovak rower
- Ludvík Aškenazy, Czech playwright, publicist, scriptwriter and writer (1921-1986)
- Ludvík Ráža, Czech film director and screenwriter (1929-2000)
- Ludvík Vítězslav Čelanský, Czech conductor, theater manager, music educator, composer and director conductor of Czech
- Ludvík Krejčí, Czechoslovak legioneer and army general (1890-1972)
- Ludvík Souček, Czech photographer, doctor, writer and fact literature writer (1926–1978)
- Carl Ludwig Doleschall, Austro-Hungarian physician and entomologist (1827-1859)

## 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.