Liudmyla
More than 43,000 women in Poland carry this Ukrainian spelling, yet almost no girls are given it now: the birth register keeps to the Polish Ludmiła. Built from two old Slavic pieces, *lud* and *mila*, it reads as dear to the people.
Liudmyla Pronunciation
Liudmyla is pronounced lyood-MIH-lah (/ljudˈmɨla/).
What Liudmyla means
Where Liudmyla comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Liudmyla is built from two old Slavic pieces. The first, lud, means the people; the second, mila, means dear or gracious. Together they make a plain promise: dear to the people. That meaning sits close to the surface, and it has stayed there since Slavic speakers used both parts as ordinary words.
Poland took the same name and wrote it Ludmiła. Ukrainian kept the fuller Liudmyla. The oldest famous bearer is Saint Ludmila of Bohemia, a duchess of the ninth and tenth centuries who helped raise her grandson, later Saint Wenceslas, and who was killed around the year 921. Her cult spread her name east and west long before it reached any modern birth register.
Open a Polish class register and the variant Ludmiła turns up among the pupils. The short form Mila often does the daily work. The name that began as dear to the people keeps that job.
How many people are named Liudmyla
1 in 523 women in Poland is named Liudmyla. 43,101 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #208 among female names.
Liudmyla's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Liudmyla as a middle name
Liudmyla is a first name for 43,101 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4985th, between Lisa-Marie (3) and Li̇na (3).
-
#4983 Lira3
-
#4984 Lisa-Marie3
-
#4985 Liudmyla3
-
#4986 Li̇na3
-
#4987 Loana3