Ludmila combines the Slavic lyud (people) and mil (gracious, beloved) — "beloved of the people." Saint Ludmila of Bohemia (c. 860-921) was the first Bohemian Christian queen, grandmother of Saint Wenceslaus (Good King Wenceslas). Murdered by her pagan daughter-in-law Drahomíra to take control of the kingdom; her shrine at St. George's Basilica in Prague Castle remains a pilgrimage site.
Patron saint of Bohemia and grandmothers.
Ludmila is a compound name. Its parts are milŭ — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.
Ludmila does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ludmila reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.