Włodzimiera
Barely 200 Polish women carry it, and none has been born in years: most Poles have never met one. Włodzimiera is the feminine form of Włodzimierz, Slavic for "ruler of peace".
Włodzimiera Pronunciation
Włodzimiera is pronounced vwo-jeem-YE-rah (/vwɔd͡ʑimˈjɛra/).
What Włodzimiera means
Where Włodzimiera comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Włodzimiera is the feminine twin of Włodzimierz, and both rise from Slavic roots. The opening element traces back to a word for ruling, for holding sway. The ending, mir, meant peace and also world in old Slavic. Set them side by side and you get the sense the name still holds in Polish dictionaries: ruler of peace, władczyni pokoju.
The masculine form traveled further. Włodzimierz belongs to princes and saints, while Włodzimiera walks beside it as the cross-gender partner. The same mir turns up in Kazimierz, another old Polish name built from that root. Włodzimiera is the rarer signature on the page.
Picture a class register with one Włodzimiera among the Zofias and Zuzannas. The name marks a girl as kin to that older, masculine line, and to the meaning it hands down: ruler of peace.
How many people are named Włodzimiera
1 in 107865 women in Poland is named Włodzimiera. 209 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2171 among female names.
Włodzimiera as a middle name
Włodzimiera is a first name for 209 women in Poland and a middle name for another 113, a 65/35 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 625th, between Rozwita (113) and Iwetta (112).
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#623 Lucjanna113
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#624 Rozwita113
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#625 Włodzimiera113
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#626 Iwetta112
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#627 Leila112