Volodymyra
A Slavic name from Ukrainian families, meaning "ruler of peace". Just 119 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one.
Volodymyra Pronunciation
What Volodymyra means
Where Volodymyra comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Volodymyra comes from Slavic roots. The name joins volod, "to rule," with mir, a word that means both peace and world. Ukrainian speakers read the whole as "ruler of peace," władczyni pokoju in Polish.
The masculine form, Volodymyr, is the famous one. Volodymyr the Great ruled Kyivan Rus and accepted Christianity around 988, which set the name deep in the region's history. Volodymyra is the feminine, built from the same two elements. It has no common diminutives of its own, so it usually stands in full.
In Poland the name is rare. A teacher reading a class register might slow down at Volodymyra, then get it right on the second try. The name travels with Ukrainian families, and it has grown more visible in Poland since 2022. Whatever the room, the two old pieces stay fixed: volod for rule, mir for peace.
How many people are named Volodymyra
1 in 189444 women in Poland is named Volodymyra. 119 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3101 among female names.
Volodymyra as a middle name
Volodymyra is a first name for 119 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 96/4 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3881st, between Vivi (5) and Walencja (5).
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#3879 Vasilica5
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#3880 Vivi5
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#3881 Volodymyra5
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#3882 Walencja5
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#3883 Walerianna5