Volodymir
A rare Ukrainian name in Poland: barely 83 men carry it, so most Poles have never met one. Its Slavic roots mean "ruler of peace".
Volodymir Pronunciation
What Volodymir means
Where Volodymir comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Volodymyr is built from two old Slavic roots. Volod means to rule, and mir carries the sense of peace across the Slavic languages. Set side by side, they give the reading this site records: ruler of peace. The parts are literal. The pairing is old.
The name belongs to Ukraine before anywhere else. Volodymyr the Great, grand prince of Kyiv, accepted Christian baptism for Rus around the year 988, and the Orthodox church later counted him a saint. In Polish the same two roots surface as Włodzimierz, the cognate a Polish reader already knows.
Read the name today and it points east, toward Kyiv rather than Kraków. A Polish class register might hold one Volodymyr among the Włodzimierzes, the spelling marking a family's Ukrainian side. The meaning holds either way: władca pokoju, ruler of peace.
How many people are named Volodymir
1 in 257183 men in Poland is named Volodymir. 83 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3906 among male names.