Vlada
A Slavic name built on the root for ruling and power. It scrapes into the top 1,000 girls' names in Poland, but only just: most people here will never meet a Vlada, though a few more arrived last year than in the lean years before.
Vlada Pronunciation
What Vlada means
Where Vlada comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vlada begins in the Slavic root vlad, which means to rule. The same root sits inside the Polish word władza, meaning power and authority, and inside panowanie, the state of holding command. Here meaning and origin agree. Vlada names a ruler.
The name travels mostly through Russian and Ukrainian families, where it keeps company with older names built on the same governing element. Vladimir joins vlad to mir, world or peace, so the whole reads as one who rules the world. Polish Władysław carries that same first half. Set beside them, Vlada holds the root on its own, with nothing added.
When an imieniny comes around, the girl answering to Vlada answers to a word that once marked the person who ruled.
How many people are named Vlada
1 in 18928 women in Poland is named Vlada. 1,197 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #884 among female names.
Vlada's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1387 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2023. Still the #884 name among living women, even as it slips to #1387 among newborns.
Where Vlada is most popular
Vlada is most popular in Lower Silesian, 588% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+402%).
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Lower Silesian2 girls born+588%
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Greater Poland2 girls born+402%
Vlada as a middle name
Vlada is a first name for 1,197 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5340th, between Viyan (3) and Véronica (3).
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5338
3Vitalina
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5339
3Viyan
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53403Vlada
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5341
3Véronica
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5342
3Věra