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Volodymyr

Boys' name

Transliteration of Володи́мир

Volodymyr has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2023. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2023, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Volodymyr, 2023

1 in 663,000

Volodymyr over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Volodymyr: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of Володи́мир

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Volodymyr means

Volodymyr is a transliteration of Володи́мир.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Ukrainian Володи́мир (Volodýmyr), Old East Slavic Володимѣръ (Volodiměrŭ). A Ukrainian cognate of Russian Влади́мир (Vladímir). Doublet of Vladimir.

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Origin, language, and formation

Volodymyr is used in English.

Volodymyr comes through Ukrainian Володи́мир and Old East Slavic Володимѣръ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Володи́мир, Влади́мир and Vladimir.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Volodymyr is pronounced /vələˈdiːmiə(ɹ)/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Volodymyr between 2023 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2023; its best national rank was #14,060 in 2023.

How common is Volodymyr?

Volodymyr had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Volodymyr 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 2023 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Volodymyr. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Volodymyrs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Volodymyr was born before 2023 — so the typical Volodymyr is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
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Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Volodymyr 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2023 (5)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#14,060
2023

Volodymyr around the world

Where Volodymyr 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
    2007–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    2023–2023
    #5,175
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2007–2007
    #2,479
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1951–1952
    #250
    in 1952

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

Volodymyr by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#14,060
2023
Peak year
2023
5 that year
First recorded
2023
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

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

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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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