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Wladimir

Boys' name

Peace, through Владимир

Wladimir has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 2006, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Wladimir, 2006

1 in 659,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wladimir: meaning, origin, and history

Peace, through Владимир

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wladimir means

Wladimir belongs to the name family reached through Wladimir → Wladimir → Владимир. Its meaning is “peace”.

Origin, language, and formation

Wladimir is used in English, Dutch and German.

Wladimir comes through German Wladimir.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Waldemar, Wladimir and Владимир.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Wladimir is pronounced /ˈʋlɑdɪmɪr/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Wladimir between 1981 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2006; its best national rank was #7,257 in 1981.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Wladimir?

Wladimir had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 659,000
6 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only
1 in 343,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
457,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wladimir 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 2006 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 457,035 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wladimir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wladimirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wladimir was born before 2006 — so the typical Wladimir is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Wladimir 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (6)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#7,257
1981

Spellings of Wladimir

Wladimir is not the most common spelling — Vladimir is, with 83.6% against Wladimir's 0.15%.

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.

Wladimir around the world

Where Wladimir 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.

  • France
    1905–2021
    #4,076
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1950–1967
    #552
    in 1967

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Wladimir 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
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Best rank ever
#7,257
1981
Peak year
2006
6 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Wladimir

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

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Sibling names for Wladimir

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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