Ludovic
Fewer than 60 Polish men carry it, and records here show not a single newborn given the name since 2000. A French take on a Latin original meaning "famous in battle", so rare that most Poles have never met one.
Ludovic Pronunciation
What Ludovic means
Where Ludovic comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ludovic came into French from the Latin Ludovicus, a clerk's spelling for the name that also gave France its Louis. Underneath that Latin coat sits an older compound meaning "famous in battle." The martial sense survived every respelling, and it kept pointing toward the warrior long after most speakers forgot the roots.
France made Ludovic its own. Ludovic Halévy, who lived from 1834 to 1908, wrote for the Paris stage and helped shape the libretto of Bizet's Carmen. The name belongs to opera houses now as much as to old campaigns, which is a good fate for a word built out of fighting.
On a Polish class register, Ludovic would sit a few letters from Ludwik, its home-grown cousin. Both go back through the Latin Ludovicus to the same idea. A boy who carries it answers, whether he knows it or not, to fame won in battle.
How many people are named Ludovic
1 in 368038 men in Poland is named Ludovic. 58 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4868 among male names.
Ludovic as a middle name
Ludovic is a first name for 58 men in Poland and a middle name for another 23, a 72/28 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1810th, between Leander (23) and Maksim (23).
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#1808 Kristopher23
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#1809 Leander23
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#1810 Ludovic23
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#1811 Maksim23
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#1812 Marin23