Włodzimir
Just five men in Poland still carry it, and records show no boy given it since 2000. The name is Slavic for "ruler of peace", built from words for rule and peace, and a cousin of the Russian Vladimir.
Włodzimir Pronunciation
Włodzimir is pronounced vwo-JEE-meer (/vwɔˈd͡ʑimir/).
What Włodzimir means
Where Włodzimir comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Włodzimir grows from Slavic roots. Two old elements sit inside it: a verb meaning to rule and a noun meaning peace. Polish keeps the sense as „władać w pokoju", to hold power in peace, which English renders as "ruler of peace". The same pairing produced the Russian Vladimir, so the name has cousins far past Poland's borders.
The old word for "peace" also carried the sense of "world" in Slavic speech, so a bearer could be read as one who rules a wider realm. That doubling stayed in the name.
There is a feminine variant, Włodzimira. On a class register it can stand beside the masculine form, one root shared between them.
The short meaning points at governance held without violence. That is a demanding thing to name a child. Włodzimir asks its bearer to rule, and to keep the peace while ruling.
How many people are named Włodzimir
1 in 4269238 men in Poland is named Włodzimir. 5 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #28226 among male names.
Włodzimir as a middle name
Włodzimir is a first name for 5 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 63/37 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 7003rd, between Wszebór (3) and Xabier (3).
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#7001 Wsiewołod3
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#7002 Wszebór3
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#7003 Włodzimir3
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#7004 Xabier3
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#7005 Xiao3