Vladimirs
Fewer than 60 men in Poland carry this Slavic name, so most Poles have never met one, and none have been born in years. At root it means "peaceful ruler".
Vladimirs Pronunciation
What Vladimirs means
Where Vladimirs comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vladimirs is the Latvian form of a name grown in Slavic soil. Its two pieces are old. The first, vladi, comes from a root meaning to rule. The second is mir. Polish readers meet the short meaning as władca pokoju, peaceful ruler in English.
The peace was not always there. Slavic mir means both peace and world, though an older layer may link the element to a word for famous or great. The sense of peaceful ruler settled onto the name later, once mir was heard as peace. A ruler's name grew calm over centuries.
The -s ending marks it as Latvian. A Polish teacher reading a class register meets the same Vladimir underneath, dressed for Riga rather than Kraków. At the urząd, that final letter does the work of grammar. It is the Latvian masculine nominative.
The meaning Polish readers will keep is władca pokoju.
How many people are named Vladimirs
1 in 368038 men in Poland is named Vladimirs. 58 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4893 among male names.