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Vladimir

#1,836 in 2025Boys' name

Power

Vladimir has been given to 6,190 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #1,836 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 180 recorded.

Babies named Vladimir, 2025

1 in 38,100

Vladimir over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vladimir: meaning, origin, and history

Power

Russian and English

What Vladimir means

Vladimir means “power”, associated with vladĭ.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Russian Владимир (Vladimir), as well as from other Slavic cognates, and reinforced by Medieval Latin Vladimirus, name of several saints in the Eastern Orthodox Church, from Old East Slavic Володимѣръ (Volodiměrŭ), Old Church Slavonic Владимѣръ (Vladiměrŭ), from Proto-Slavic *Voldiměrъ (which see for more), equivalent to владь (vladĭ, “power”) (which is from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“be strong”)) and мѣръ (měrŭ, “great”), changed by folk etymology into миръ (mirŭ, “peace”).

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Origin, language, and formation

Vladimir is used in English, Azerbaijani, Cebuano, Italian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian and Spanish. Its origins include Russian and English.

Vladimir comes through Russian Владимир, Old East Slavic Володимѣръ, Old Church Slavonic Владимѣръ, Proto-Slavic *Voldiměrъ and Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁-.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Влади́мир and Vladimirus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Vladimir is pronounced /ˈvlæ.dɪ.miə(ɹ)/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,190 boys were recorded with the name Vladimir between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 180 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,042 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,471 in 2020 to #1,836 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,138 in 2015 to #1,836 in 2025.

How common is Vladimir?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 38,100
87 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 19,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,836
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
26,414 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vladimir sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 26,414 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vladimir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vladimirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vladimir was born before 2003 — so the typical Vladimir is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,828
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 25.6% of all recorded uses (1,583).

Is Vladimir rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+119
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−365
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−698
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.52×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.3%
Peak was 2016 (180)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,042
1997

Spellings of Vladimir

Vladimir is the most-used spelling, taking 83.7% of the 7,393 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Vladimir is used

Across 2016–2025, Vladimir was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 13,432 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 50,000).

212 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 8,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 9,091
  3. 3Washington1 in 11,111
  4. 4Illinois1 in 12,500
  5. 5New York1 in 12,500
  6. 6Texas1 in 12,500
  7. 7Virginia1 in 20,000
  8. 8Kansas1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Vladimir around the world

Where Vladimir ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #1,226
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2020–2020
    #711
    in 2020
  • Ireland
    2008–2022
    #779
    in 2022
  • France
    1904–2025
    #1,892
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2019
    #488
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Vladimir

People whose public names include Vladimir, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Vladimir in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Vladimir. Linked forms have their own page here.

VladBladimirValdemarWaldemarWladimirVolodymyrMirchoUladzimirVladimiroVolodimirWłodzimirVladimirasVladimirusWłodzimierz

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Vladimir by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,836
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 365
Best rank ever
#1,042
1997
Peak year
2016
180 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,190
Count in 2025
87

Names similar to Vladimir

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CasimirBladimirVladislavJahmirKashmirZamirJamirAhmirSamirDamirShamirAamirEmirTamirZymirTymirRahmirKazimirZahmirQuamirDemirRamirKymirNamir

Names with a curve like Vladimir

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Vladimir, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MarkoTajSimeonObedKalvinIshmaelEamonMarcelloBilalSyedCristobalMenachem

Sibling names for Vladimir

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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