Wladimir
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Germanic *wald- 'rule' + *mari- 'famous'
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Venezuela (asosab): listed as male
- Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as male
- Ecuador (INEC, 2024): listed as male
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 28 countries · latest register: SRCEI, 2021
/uladimiɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wladimir is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common given name.
- CLChile≈1 in 5.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela1 in 6.5K
- 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 Wladimir 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)
- Record sources
- 372 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500,000 named Владимир, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Владимир in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus, Vladimir in MD Moldova, RS Serbia 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)from Germanic *wald- 'rule' + *mari- 'famous'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wladimir 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 | register #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 | 47,209as Vladimir | 1 in 71 | 47K | Vladimir | 70 |
| VE Venezuela | #314 | 4,378 | 1 in 6.5K | 4.4K | Wladimir | 63 |
| CL Chile | #299 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 17 | Wladimir | 90 |
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; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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)Wladimir is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, var of Vladimir.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)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)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 4.4K | #295 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 9 | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 5 | #4,136 |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Wladimir mean, and where does it come from?
- from Germanic *wald- 'rule' + *mari- 'famous' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Wladimir?
- A machine transcription gives /uladimiɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Wladimir a male or female name?
- Wladimir is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Venezuela (asosab): listed as male; Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as male; Ecuador (INEC, 2024): listed as male; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Wladimir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 million people named Владимир in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Wladimir?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 4,378 people named Wladimir, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Wladimir compared with other names?
- In Russia, Wladimir 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/wladimirThe 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, “Wladimir” — the 8th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.