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Włodzimierz

Around 44,000 Polish men carry it, but new parents rarely reach for it now: eight boys last year, and the count keeps sliding. The roots are Slavic, włod "to rule" and mir "peace", which Polish reads as władca pokoju, ruler of peace.

Włodzimierz Pronunciation

Włodzimierz is pronounced vwo-JEEM-yesh (/vwɔˈd͡ʑimjɛʂ/).

Related names
Wladimir Włodek
Alive in 2025
44,615
Newborns 2025
8
National rank
#204
Next name day
16 January
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What Włodzimierz means

Where Włodzimierz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Włodzimierz comes from old Slavic roots. The first part, włod, means to rule; the second, mir, carries two senses in Slavic tongues, peace and world. From that pairing Polish reads the name as władca pokoju, ruler of peace, the reading this site follows. The same two roots gave Russian its Vladimir, so the Polish and Russian forms are close cousins rather than borrowings.

Poland has worn the name in plain daylight. Włodzimierz Smolarek, the footballer, played at the 1982 World Cup. Włodzimierz Puchalski spent his life photographing birds and marshland. On a class register the name sits full and formal, four syllables long, and friends usually shorten it to Włodek.

There is a feminine variant, Włodzimiera, less common now. The name has its imieniny in July. Whatever the second root once meant on the steppe, in Polish it settles as władca pokoju.

When Włodzimierz celebrates name day

Włodzimierz appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar, 3 of them as a main name, the first on 16 January.

Next name day
16 January
Saturday in 2027
Next one in 83 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Włodzimierz

1 in 478 men in Poland is named Włodzimierz. 44,615 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #204 among male names.

People with the name Włodzimierz 2019 → 2025
44,615 −8,269 since 2019
2020 52,227 −657
2021 50,543 −1,684
2022 48,815 −1,728
2023 47,363 −1,452
2024 45,993 −1,370
2025 44,615 −1,378

Włodzimierz's popularity over time

8 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #780 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2012. Still the #204 name among living men, even as it slips to #780 among newborns.

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8 newborns with the name Włodzimierz in 2025
national rank #780 that year

Where parents choose Włodzimierz

Włodzimierz is most popular in Greater Poland, 159% above the national average (16 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+97%) and Lublin (+36%). It is least common in Lesser Poland and Lower Silesian, 69% and 56% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Greater Poland
    +159%
    1 in 13,453 babies
  • Masovian
    +97%
    1 in 17,713 babies
  • Lublin
    +36%
    1 in 25,669 babies
Chosen least
  • Lesser Poland
    −69%
    1 in 113,458 babies
  • Lower Silesian
    −56%
    1 in 78,567 babies
  • Łódź
    −45%
    1 in 63,359 babies

Włodzimierz as a middle name

Włodzimierz is a first name for 44,615 men in Poland and a middle name for another 28,496, a 61/39 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 76th, between Bartosz (28,854) and Szczepan (27,759).

As a first name
44,615
As a middle name
28,496
first name 61% middle name 39%
Middle-name ranking men

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