Volodya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Pet form of vLapimir
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/voʊloʊdjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Volodya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- AMArmenia≈1 in 780as Վոլոդյա(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 29Kas Володя
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.2M
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 Volodya 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,900 named Володя, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Володя in RU Russia, BY Belarus, UZ Uzbekistan, Volodja in MD Moldova, TJ Tajikistan and Վոլոդյա in AM Armenia.
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)
Pet form of vLapimir.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Volodya 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 | #637 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 29K | #422 | Володя | 125 |
| AM Armenia | #164 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 780 | — | Վոլոդյա | 25 |
| BY Belarus | #227 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Володя | 7 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Володя | 6 |
| TJ Tajikistan | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Volodja | 2 |
| MD Moldova | #947 | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Volodja | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 21 | 1 in 1.8M | 21 | Volodya | 12 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Volodya | 2 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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)
Volodya is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Russian: pet form of VLADIMIR (via the colloquial form Volodimir ) and of VSEVOLOD .
as a word
In English, A transliteration of the Russian male given name diminutive Влади́мир (Vladímir), Володя
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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. 958UAnot in their usual nameGrand Prince of Kiev
- Waldemar Haffkineb. 1856FRnot in their usual namebacteriologist (1856–1930)
- Vladimir Leninb. 1870RUnot in their usual namefounding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
- Vladimir Mayakovskyb. 1893RUnot in their usual nameRussian and Soviet poet (1893–1930)
- Vladimir Nabokovb. 1899USnot in their usual nameRussian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
- Vladimir Gelfandb. 1923UAnot in their usual nameRussian writer (1923–1983)
- Vladimir Vysotskyb. 1938RUnot in their usual nameSoviet singer-songwriter and actor (1938–1980)
- Vladimir Menshovb. 1939RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian film director and actor (1939–2021)
- Vladimir Kramnikb. 1975RUnot in their usual nameRussian chess grandmaster
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murzab. 1981RUnot in their usual nameRussian 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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 21 | #6,324 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 20 | #5,985 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Volodya mean, and where does it come from?
- Pet form of vLapimir. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Volodya?
- In the etymology graph, Waldemar, Valdemar and Vlado are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Vladimir and Vladlen.
- How do you pronounce Volodya?
- A machine transcription gives /voʊloʊdjə/ (IPA) for Bulgarian.
- Is Volodya a male or female name?
- Volodya 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.
- In which country does Volodya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.9 thousand people named Володя in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Volodya?
- In Poland, the national register counted 21 people named Volodya in 2026, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
- How common is Volodya compared with other names?
- In Russia, Volodya is the 637th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Volodya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/volodyaThe 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, “Volodya” — the 637th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.