Vadims
given name · Latvian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vadims is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 61st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Вади́м (Vadím).
- ZWZimbabwe1 in 88◐
- BYBelarus1 in 188
- UAUkraine1 in 253
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈67K ●
- #475 ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 279 ●
- 1 in 164 ◐
across 13 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
2.7M records
Official registry-verified
Moldova
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Вадим in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 9 more, Vadim in US United States, MD Moldova, EE Estonia and 5 more, Vadym in PL Poland, NO Norway, DE Germany and 4 more and Вадимс in LV Latvia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Вади́м (Vadím)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #61 | 3,603,737 | 1.4M rec. | — | #38 | Вадим | 224 |
| UA Ukraine | #56 | 1,246,586 | 1.2M rec. | — | listed | Вадим | 112 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 41,704 | 747 rec. | — | — | Вадим | 16 |
| BY Belarus | #40 | 22,774 | 8.6K rec. | — | 18 | Вадим | 56 |
| MD Moldova | #635 | 20,568△ | 1K rec. | 1 in 164 | 21K | Vadim | 43 |
| PL Poland | #278 | 18,973△ | 854 rec. | 1 in 2K | 19K | Vadym | 68 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #130 | 10,845 | 28K rec. | 1 in 1.8K | 11K | Вадим | 54 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #327 | 10,642 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Вадим | 19 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | #4 | 9,550 | 4 rec. | — | — | Вадим | 3 |
| CN China | — | 6,641 | 39 rec. | — | — | Вадим | 12 |
| EE Estonia | #99 | 6,112 | 935 rec. | — | 2.2K | Vadim | 57 |
| LV Latvia | #844 | 5,821△ | 308 rec. | 1 in 323 | 5.8K | Вадимс | 40 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Latvian9K81%
- English3994%
- Norwegian Bokmål2682%
- Polish2402%
- Finnish2052%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Latvian | 8,985 | 81% |
| English | 399 | 4% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 268 | 2% |
| Polish | 240 | 2% |
| Finnish | 205 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Vadims is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 10 |
| 2011 | 12 |
| 2012 | 14 |
| 2013 | 15 |
| 2014 | 17 |
| 2015 | 20 |
| 2016 | 20 |
| 2017 | 20 |
| 2018 | 18 |
| 2019 | 19 |
| 2020 | 19 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 12 years between 2009–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Vadims Loginsb. 1981LVLatvian association football player
- Vadims Vasiļevskisb. 1982LVLatvian javelin thrower (born 1982)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 5.8K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 5.8K | #79 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 268 | #3,862 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 194 | #3,531 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 61 | #2,937 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 44 | #3,384 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 43 | #15,126 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 32 | #1,179 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 31 | #41,183 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 25 | #22,844 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 20 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 38 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Vadims?
- We estimate roughly 67 thousand people bear Vadims (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Vadims have the most bearers?
- Vadims is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled вадим.
- How common is Vadims compared with other names?
- In Russia, Vadims is the 61st most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Vadims a male or female name?
- Vadims is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Vadims mean?
- Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Вади́м (Vadím)
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Vadims” — the 61st most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.