Vladimir

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Владимир in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 5 more, Wladimir in VE Venezuela, CL Chile, EC Ecuador, Volodymyr in PL Poland, LT Lithuania and Володимир in UA Ukraine.

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●

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Vladimir is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Lithuanian given name83K records spelled Vladimir15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, United States

  Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian, English

  Also written Vladimiras, Vladimira, Vladimīr, Vladimír, Vladimíra

• Estonian given name41K records spelled Vladimir6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Estonia, Finland, United States, Russia

  Languages: Estonian, Finnish

  Also written Volodymyr, Vladimír

• a separate given name21K records spelled Vladimir11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, Ecuador

  Also written Vladimír, Vladimīr, Vladimìr, Vládimir, Vladimíř

• Hungarian given name11K records spelled Vladimir3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Slovenia, Russia, Hungary, Serbia

  Also written Vlagyimir, Vladimír

• Albanian given name11K records spelled Vladimir4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy, United Kingdom

  Also written Vladímir, Vladimír, Vlãdîmír

• Uzbek given name6.7K records spelled Vladimir21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye

  Languages: Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrgyz

  Also written Владимир, Vlãdïmïr, Vladimír

• Thai given name1.9K records spelled Vladimir11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand, Laos, Russia, United States

  Languages: Thai, Lao

  Also written วลาดิเมียร์, วลาดิมีร์, วลาดีเมียร์, Vladimír, วลาดีมีร์

99 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Vladimir is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, from Slavic vlad- 'rule' + mir- 'peace/world'

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

• In Russian, "to rule the land."

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In English, A transliteration of the Macedonian or Russian male given name Вла́ди́мир (Vládímir), equivalent to Volodymyr, popular throughout the history of Slavic countries and societies.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, Vladimir är ett slaviskt namn (→ Valdemar).

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In French, Origine slave; signifie « souverain » et « paix ».

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 116 years between 1889–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Vladimir the Greatb. 958UAGrand Prince of Kiev
• Waldemar Haffkineb. 1856FRnot in their usual namebacteriologist (1856–1930)
• Vladimir Leninb. 1870RUfounding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
• Vladimir Mayakovskyb. 1893RURussian and Soviet poet (1893–1930)
• Vladimir Nabokovb. 1899USRussian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
• Vladimir Gelfandb. 1923UARussian writer (1923–1983)
• Vladimir Vysotskyb. 1938RUSoviet singer-songwriter and actor (1938–1980)
• Vladimir Menshovb. 1939RUSoviet and Russian film director and actor (1939–2021)
• Vladimir Kramnikb. 1975RURussian chess grandmaster
• Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murzab. 1981RURussian politician and journalist (born 1981)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,110 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Vladimir?

We estimate roughly 240 thousand people bear Vladimir (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Vladimir have the most bearers?

Vladimir is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled владимир.

How common is Vladimir compared with other names?

In Russia, Vladimir is the 9th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Vladimir a male or female name?

Vladimir 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 Vladimir mean?

Recorded meaning: Slavic name from vladeti ‘to rule’ + mir ‘peace/world’.