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The LUDWIG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 21,994 1485 0.008 81
United States (1880 census) 5,040 1211 0.01 101
Change since 1880 +16954 -274 -0.002 -20
Other Countries
Australia 373 4254 0.002 23
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LUDWIG by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 1,965 604 0.016 160
California 1,721 1811 0.005 51
Ohio 1,476 847 0.013 130
New York 1,295 1341 0.007 68
Florida 1,288 1517 0.008 81
Top States for LUDWIG by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 676 380 0.023 231
North Dakota 132 522 0.021 206
Wisconsin 936 520 0.017 175
Pennsylvania 1,965 604 0.016 160
Minnesota 771 556 0.016 157

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LUDWIG live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LUDWIG represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LUDWIG in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LUDWIG by picking someone at random in Iowa than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LUDWIG

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Poland

Language of origin: Polish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LUDWIG surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LUDWIG in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 312 1.42
Mixed Race 238 1.08
Asian/Pacific 117 0.53
Black/African American 53 0.24
Native American/Alaskan 51 0.23
White (Caucasian) 21,222 96.49

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LUDWIG surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LUDWIG in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of LUDWIG.

Similar names to LUDWIG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LUDWIG.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for LUDWIG

The following words are slight variants of LUDWIG that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.