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Volodymyr

The eastern Slavic spelling of Włodzimierz, kept in Ukrainian and given only to boys. Around 65,000 men in Poland carry it, enough that it rings familiar, though few newborns get it now.

Volodymyr Pronunciation

Alive in 2025
65,124
Newborns 2025
23
National rank
#157

What Volodymyr means

Where Volodymyr comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Volodymyr is a Slavic name built from two old parts. The first meant to rule. The second was heard by early Slavic speakers as "great," and only later did it drift toward "mir," the word for peace. The tidy gloss "ruler of peace" came with that shift, fitted onto the name after the fact.

In Polish the same name turns into Włodzimierz, shortened by friends to Włodek.

Its most documented bearer is Volodymyr the Great, prince of Kyiv, who accepted Christianity around 988 and turned Rus toward Byzantium. The east Slavic spelling with an o has held firm in Ukraine ever since. Picture a Polish class register: a Volodymyr might sit a few rows from a Włodek, one Slavic root wearing two spellings.

How many people are named Volodymyr

1 in 328 men in Poland is named Volodymyr. 65,124 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #157 among male names.

People with the name Volodymyr 2019 → 2025
65,124 +46,268 since 2019
2020 24,034 +5,178
2021 30,881 +6,847
2022 41,077 +10,196
2023 57,547 +16,470
2024 61,961 +4,414
2025 65,124 +3,163

Volodymyr's popularity over time

23 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #491 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2012. Still the #157 name among living men, even as it slips to #491 among newborns.

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23 newborns with the name Volodymyr in 2025
national rank #491 that year

Where Volodymyr is most popular

Volodymyr is most popular in West Pomeranian, 209% above the national average (11 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+88%) and Masovian (+54%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Silesian, 61% and 37% below average respectively.

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Volodymyr as a middle name

Volodymyr is a first name for 65,124 men in Poland and a middle name for another 52, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1049th, between Tomisław (52) and Zdzislaw (52).

As a first name
65,124
As a middle name
52
first name 100% middle name 0%
Middle-name ranking men

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