Wojmir
A Slavic name that carries the sense of a fighter for peace. Only 24 men in Poland go by it, so most people here will never meet one.
Wojmir Pronunciation
Wojmir is pronounced VOY-meer (/ˈvɔjmir/).
What Wojmir means
Where Wojmir comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wojmir belongs to the old family of Slavic dithematic names, the ones built from two roots welded together. The first part, woj-, ties back to the Polish words wojownik and wojna, the warrior and the war. The second, -mir, holds the sense of peace, and in older Slavic it also meant world. Set the halves together and you reach the short meaning that follows the name today: fighter for peace, walczący o pokój.
That pairing is no contradiction. Early Slavic names liked to set a hard root against a calm one, so a Bogumir or a Sławomir sat easily beside a Wojmir. The name points to a defender whose aim is a settled world.
Wojmir stayed rare. You are unlikely to meet more than one in a school class register, and on an official form at the urząd it still reads as a deliberate choice. Its scarcity gives it weight.
The story stays plain. Two roots, one for the warrior and one for peace, and a meaning that reads directly in Polish: walczący o pokój.
When Wojmir celebrates name day
Wojmir appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 25 October.
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 Wojmir
1 in 889425 men in Poland is named Wojmir. 24 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8922 among male names.
Wojmir's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Wojmir as a middle name
Wojmir is a first name for 24 men in Poland and a middle name for another 29, a 45/55 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1579th, between Wlodzimierz (29) and Włodzisław (29).
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#1577 Uddin29
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#1578 Wlodzimierz29
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#1579 Wojmir29
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#1580 Włodzisław29
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#1581 Yacov29