# Udo (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/udo/  
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 | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## People named Udo

- Udo Kier, German actor (1944–2025)
- Udo Lattek, German football player and coach (1935–2015)
- Udo Dirkschneider, German heavy metal singer
- Udo Beyer, East German athlete
- Udo Wagner, East German fencer
- Udo Zimmermann, German composer, musicologist, opera director, and conductor (1943–2021)
- Udo Horsmann, German footballer
- Udo Ulfkotte, German journalist and conspiracy theorist (1960–2017)
- Udo of Neustria, 9th century nobleman
- Udo Samel, German actor
- Udo Schmuck, German association football player and manager
- Jan Udo Holey, German author and antisemtic conspiracy theorist

## 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.