← Back to The Early Middle Ages
Boy · Old Slavic
Vladimir
Say it: vlah-DEE-meer
Meaning
From Slavic vlad 'rule' and mir 'peace, world' (some scholars think -mir in old names first reflected Germanic -mar 'famous').
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Borne by the 10th-century prince who baptised Kievan Rus, it became a dynastic and then a general Orthodox name.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 5,700 babies given this name since 1913
- At its height in 2016, about 1 in 10,500 boys
- 116 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Early Middle Ages400 to 800
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Владимир, Volodya
| Ukrainian | Volodymyr |
|---|---|
| Polish | Włodzimierz |
| Czech | Vladimír |
| Serbian | Vladimir |
| Bulgarian | Vladimir |
| Croatian | Vladimir |
Famous bearers
- Saint Vladimir the Great, prince of Kiev
- Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American novelist
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Medieval Slavic chronicles and charters
- Royal and noble genealogies
- Calendars of saints and name days
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.