Vladimír
Only about 86 men in Poland carry it, and no boy was given it last year: most Poles have never met one. A Slavic name meaning "famous ruler" or "ruler of peace".
Vladimír Pronunciation
What Vladimír means
Where Vladimír comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vladimír grows from two Slavic roots. Vladeti means to rule. Mir means peace, and in older Slavic it also carried the sense of world. Put together, the name reads as ruler of peace, or ruler of the world. Polish keeps both: władca pokoju, władca świata.
A second reading calls the bearer a famous ruler. That sense came later, when the ending -mir was linked with a Germanic element meaning famous. The Slavic mir came first.
The most cited bearer is Vladimir the Great, prince of Kievan Rus, who accepted Christianity around 988. The long í in Vladimír marks the Czech and Slovak spelling. On a Polish class register, the name still points back to its two roots, rule and peace.
How many people are named Vladimír
1 in 248211 men in Poland is named Vladimír. 86 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3815 among male names.
Vladimír as a middle name
Vladimír is a first name for 86 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 95/5 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5096th, between Vitus (5) and Vladislav (5).
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#5094 Vitalis5
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#5095 Vitus5
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#5096 Vladimír5
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#5097 Vladislav5
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#5098 Wacek5