Wołodymyr
A Ukrainian name from Slavic roots, meaning "ruler of the world" or "ruler of peace". In Poland it stays rare: barely more than a hundred men carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Wołodymyr Pronunciation
Wołodymyr is pronounced vo-wo-DIH-mihr (/vɔwɔˈdɨmɨr/).
What Wołodymyr means
Where Wołodymyr comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wołodymyr comes from two old Slavic roots. Volod means to rule, and mir means both world and peace, which is why Polish renders the name władca świata, władca pokoju. One name holds a ruler of the world and a ruler of peace.
The name is Ukrainian first. Volodymyr the Great, prince of Kyiv, accepted Christianity around 988 and had Kyivan Rus baptised, and the Orthodox Church of Ukraine now keeps his feast on 15 July. A thousand years later Volodymyr Zelensky carried the same name through a war he did not begin. The Polish cognate is Włodzimierz, closer to home and softer in the ear.
For a Polish reader the form Wołodymyr signals the border and the neighbour across it. A child by that name on a school register in Przemyśl reads at once as Ukrainian. The spelling with ł and y holds the sound near the original, while the sense stays fixed: ruler of peace.
How many people are named Wołodymyr
1 in 190591 men in Poland is named Wołodymyr. 112 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3226 among male names.
Wołodymyr as a middle name
Wołodymyr is a first name for 112 men in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 95/5 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4512th, between Wojbor (6) and Wołodymyr (6).
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#4510 Witosz6
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#4511 Wojbor6
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#4512 Wolodymyr6
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#4513 Wołodymyr6
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#4514 Yacob6