Vladimir
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Russian: "to rule the land"
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vlædɪmiəɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vladimir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common given name.
- MDMoldova1 in 71(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 131
- UAUkraine≈1 in 34as Володимир
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Vladimir itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #20 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 372 (measured from records)
- 1 in 71 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500,000 named Владимир, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Владимир in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and Володимир in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Slavic name from vladeti ‘to rule’ + mir ‘peace/world’.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Vladimir is read(measured from records)
Vladimir is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Russian31%
"to rule the land."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
- Spanish20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Vladimir in Spanish.
- English14%
A transliteration of the Macedonian or Russian male given name Вла́ди́мир (Vládímir), equivalent to Volodymyr, popular throughout the history of Slavic countries and societies.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Croatian7.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Vladimir in Croatian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vladimir counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #8 | ≈2,500,000 est. | ≈1 in 56 | #3 | Владимир | 293 |
| UA Ukraine | #7 | ≈1,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 34 | listed | Володимир | 143 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #6 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 131 | 23K | Владимир | 80 |
| RS Serbia | #18 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 131 | listed | Vladimir | 108 |
| BY Belarus | #13 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 181 | 61 | Владимир | 86 |
| MD Moldova | #12 | 47,209 | 1 in 71 | 47K | Vladimir | 70 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Vladimir is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Slavic name from vladeti ‘to rule’ + mir ‘peace/world’.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In German, from Slavic vlad- 'rule' + mir- 'peace/world'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Swedish, Vladimir är ett slaviskt namn (→ Valdemar).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Origine slave; signifie « souverain » et « paix ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Vladimir the Greatb. 958UAGrand Prince of Kiev
- Waldemar Haffkineb. 1856FRnot in their usual namebacteriologist (1856–1930)
- Vladimir Leninb. 1870RUfounding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
- Vladimir Mayakovskyb. 1893RURussian and Soviet poet (1893–1930)
- Vladimir Nabokovb. 1899USRussian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
- Vladimir Gelfandb. 1923UARussian writer (1923–1983)
- Vladimir Vysotskyb. 1938RUSoviet singer-songwriter and actor (1938–1980)
- Vladimir Menshovb. 1939RUSoviet and Russian film director and actor (1939–2021)
- Vladimir Kramnikb. 1975RURussian chess grandmaster
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murzab. 1981RURussian politician and journalist (born 1981)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 101 sources across 54 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 47K | #17 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Vladimir come from?
- Slavic name from vladeti ‘to rule’ + mir ‘peace/world’. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Vladimir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 million people named Владимир in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Vladimir most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vladimir is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 71 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Vladimir?
- In the etymology graph, Volodymyr, Waldemar and Valdemar are forms of the same name in other languages; Vlado, Vladan and Vlatko are recorded short or pet forms.
- What does the name Vladimir mean?
- In Russian, "to rule the land."
- Is Vladimir a male or female name?
- Vladimir is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Vladimir?
- A machine transcription gives /vlædɪmiəɹ/ (IPA) for Russian.
- How common is the name Vladimir?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 47,209 people named Vladimir, about 1 in 71 residents.
- How common is Vladimir compared with other names?
- In Russia, Vladimir is the 8th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vladimirThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Vladimir” — the 8th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.