Krasimir
Fewer than 120 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. A Slavic name built from the roots for beauty and peace.
Krasimir Pronunciation
Krasimir is pronounced krah-SHEE-meer (/kraˈɕimir/).
What Krasimir means
Where Krasimir comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Krasimir grows from two old Slavic roots. The first, kras-, means beauty. You can still hear it in the Polish word krasa and in the archaic adjective krasny, once used for a face that was fair or fine. The second root, mir, means peace, though across many Slavic languages the same word also means world. Set side by side they read as beautiful peace, in Polish piękny pokój.
The name belongs to the South Slavs. It is borne widely in Bulgaria, where Krasimir has long been a common man's name.
In a Polish class register the name would sit apart from the Jakubs and Kacpers around it. The mir at its end ties it to a family of Slavic names built on peace, from Kazimierz to Włodzimierz. What stays after the etymology is settled is the plain reading on the name today: beauty and peace, piękny pokój.
How many people are named Krasimir
1 in 179380 men in Poland is named Krasimir. 119 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3091 among male names.
Krasimir's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Krasimir as a middle name
Krasimir is a first name for 119 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4824th, between Kolorado (5) and Krish (5).
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#4822 Klimek5
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#4823 Kolorado5
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#4824 Krasimir5
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#4825 Krish5
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#4826 Krister5