Vladimir (name)

Vladimir (Russian: Влади́мир, pre-1918 orthography: Владиміръ)[1] is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, widespread throughout all Slavic nations in different forms and spellings. The earliest record of a person with the name is Vladimir of Bulgaria (r. 889–893).

Vladimir
Vladimir the Great
PronunciationRussian: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr]
Serbo-Croatian: [ʋlǎdimiːr]
Gendermasculine
Origin
Word/nameSlavic
Meaning"of great power" (folk etymology: "ruler of the world", "ruler of peace") / "famous power", "bright and famous"
Other names
Alternative spellingCyrillic: Владимир, Влади́мир, Владиміръ, Владимѣръ
Variant form(s)Wladimir, Vladimer, Vlado, Vlade, Włodzimierz, Volodymyr, Vladimiro, Vladimír, Uladzimir, Valdis
Related namesfemale form Vladimira, Waldek, Waldemar, Valdemārs, Woldemar, Voldemārs, Voldemar, Valdimar, Baldomero, Vlas

Etymology

The Old East Slavic form of the name is Володимѣръ Volodiměr, while the Old Church Slavonic form is Vladiměr. According to Max Vasmer, the name is composed of Slavic владь vladĭ "to rule" and *mēri "great", "famous" (related to Gothic element mērs, -mir, c.f. Theodemir, Valamir). The modern (pre-1918) Russian forms Владимиръ and Владиміръ are based on the Church Slavonic one, with the replacement of мѣръ by миръ or міръ resulting from a folk etymological association with миръ "peace" or міръ "world".[2]

The Bolshevik reform of Russian spelling in 1918 abolished the orthographic distinction between миръ (peace) and міръ (universe, world): both are now spelled as мир, so the name came to be spelled Владимир.

Its Germanic derivative, Waldemar, almost exactly shares the same meaning with the name Robert.

History

The earliest known record of this name was the name of Vladimir-Rasate (died 893), ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire. Vladimir-Rasate was the second Bulgarian ruler following the Christianization of Bulgaria and the introduction of Old Church Slavonic as the language of church and state. The name of his pre-Christian dynastic predecessor, khan Malamir (r. 831–836), sometimes claimed as the first Bulgarian ruler with a Slavic name, already exhibits the (presumably Gothic) -mir suffix.

The name Vladimir also gave rise to an East Slavic adaptation, Volodimer or Volodimir (Old East Slavic: Володимѣръ).[3] Following the Christianization of Kievan Rus' in 988 during the reign of Vladimir the Great, the name Vladimir, along with other pagan names, was gradually replaced with Christian names, although the name Vladimir retained its popularity within the princely family in the following centuries.[4]

Three successors of Vladimir the Great shared his given name: Vladimir II Monomakh (1053–1125), Vladimir III Mstislavich (1132–1173) and Vladimir IV Rurikovich (1187–1239). The town Volodymyr in north-western Ukraine was founded by Vladimir and is named after him.[5] The foundation of another town, Vladimir in Russia, is usually attributed to Vladimir II Monomakh. However some researchers argue that it was also founded by Vladimir the Great.[6] The veneration of Vladimir the Great as a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church gave rise to the replacement of the East Slavic form of his name with the Old Church Slavonic (Old Bulgarian) one. The immense importance of Vladimir the Great as national and religious founder resulted in Vladimir becoming one of the most frequently-given Russian names.

Variants

The Slavic name survives in two traditions, the Old Church Slavonic one using the vocalism Vladi- and the Old East Slavic one in the vocalism Volodi-.

The Old Church Slavonic form Vladimir (Владимир) is used in Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Macedonian, borrowed into Slovenian, Croatian Vladimir, Czech and Slovak Vladimír.

The polnoglasie "-olo-" of Old East Slavic form Volodiměr (Володимѣръ) persists in the Ukrainian form Volodymyr (Володимир), borrowed into Slovak Volodymýr.

Historical diminutive forms: Vladimirko (Russian), Volodymyrko (Ukrainian).

In Belarusian the name is spelled Uladzimir (Uładzimir, Уладзімір) or Uladzimier (Uładzimier, Уладзімер).

In Polish, the name is spelled Włodzimierz.

In Russian, shortened and endeared versions of the name are Volodya (and variants with diminutive suffixes: Volod'ka, Volodyen'ka, etc.), Vova (and diminutives: Vovka, Vovochka, etc.), Vovchik, Vovan. In West and South Slavic countries, other short versions are used: e.g., Vlade, Vlado, Vlada, Vladica, Vladko, Vlatko, Vlajko, Vladan, Władek, Wlodik and Włodek.

The Germanic form, Waldemar or Woldemar, is sometimes traced to Valdemar I of Denmark (1131–1182) named after his Russian maternal grandfather, Vladimir II Monomakh.[7] The Germanic name is reflected in Latvian Voldemārs and Finnic (Finnish and Estonian) Voldemar.

The Greek form is Vladimiros (Βλαδίμηρος). The name is most common in Northern Greece especially among the Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia. Diminutives of the name among these Slavic speakers are Vlade and Mire.

People with the name

Royalty

Religious figures

Presidents and prime ministers

Military leaders

Intelligence officers

Cosmonauts
  • Vladimir Aksyonov (born 1935), former Soviet cosmonaut
  • Vladimir Dezhurov (born 1962), Russian former cosmonaut
  • Vladimir Dzhanibekov (born 1942), former cosmonaut
  • Vladimir Komarov (1927–1967), Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut, commander of Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member, solo pilot of Soyuz 1 and the first human to die in a space flight
  • Vladimir Kovalyonok (born 1942), retired Soviet cosmonaut
  • Vladimir Lyakhov (1941–2018), Ukrainian Soviet cosmonaut
  • Vladimír Remek (born 1948), Czech politician and diplomat and former cosmonaut and military pilot
  • Vladimir Shatalov (1927–2021), Soviet cosmonaut
  • Vladimir Solovyov (born 1946), former Soviet cosmonaut
  • Vladimir G. Titov (born 1947), retired Russian Air Force Colonel and former cosmonaut
  • Vladimir Vasyutin (1952–2002), Soviet cosmonaut

Musicians
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy (born 1937), internationally recognized solo pianist, chamber music performer and conductor
  • Vladimir Feltsman (born 1952), Russian musician
  • Vladimir Horowitz (1903–1989), Russian-American classical pianist and composer
  • Vladimir A. Komarov (born 1976), Russian musician, singer, songwriter, sound producer, DJ, and journalist
  • Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian-German pianist 
  • Vladimir Presnyakov Jr. (born 1968), Soviet and Russian singer, musician, keyboardist, composer, arranger, and actor
  • Vladimir Rosing (1890–1963), Russian-born American and English operatic tenor and stage director
  • Vladimir Vysotsky (1938–1980), Soviet singer-songwriter, poet, and actor
  • Vladimir Djambazov (born 1954), Bulgarian composer and horn player

Actors and TV hosts
  • Vladimir Duthiers (born 1969), American journalist and TV host at CBS
  • Vladimir Fogel, Russian actor of the silent film era
  • Vladimir Mashkov (born 1963), Russian actor and film director
  • Vladimir Solovyov (born 1963), Russian journalist, television presenter, writer and propagandist
  • Vladimir Yeryomin, Soviet and Russian actor, screenwriter and producer, member of the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation
  • Vladimir Karamazov (born 1979), Bulgarian actor, producer and photographer

Politicians

Literary figures
  • Vladimir Cavarnali (1910–1966), Romanian poet and editor
  • Vladimir Duthiers (born 1969), American journalist
  • Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930), Soviet poet, playwright, artist, and actor
  • Vladimir Menshov (1939-2021), Soviet and Russian actor and filmmaker
  • Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian and American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist
  • Vladimir Nazor (1876-1949), Croatian poet
  • Vladimir Oravsky (born 1947), Swedish author and film director
  • Volodymyr Sosiura (1898–1965) Ukrainian poet
  • Vladimir Sorokin (born 1955), Russian writer and dramatist
  • Vladimir Vidrić (1875-1909), Croatian poet

Scientists
  • Vladimir Shkodrov (1930 – 2010) Bulgarian astronomer and professor at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • Vladimir Derevenko, Russian Empire and Soviet medical doctor and surgeon who served at the court of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia
  • Vladimir Hachinski, Canadian clinical neuroscientist and researcher
  • Vladimir L. Komarov (1869–1945), Russian botanist
  • Vladimir Kostitsyn (born 1945), Russian geophysicist
  • Vladimir Kovalevsky, Russian statesman, scientist and entrepreneur
  • Vladimir Vernadsky (1863 – 1945), Russian mineralogist and geochemist
  • Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology

Artists
  • Vladimir Becić (1886–1954), Croatian painter and photographer
  • Vladimir Makovsky (1846–1920), Russian painter, art collector, and teacher
  • Vladimir Dimitrov (1882 – 1960), Bulgarian painter, draughtsman and teacher

Businessmen
  • Vladimir Potanin (born 1961), Russian business oligarch
  • Vladimir Tenev (born 1987), Bulgarian-American entrepreneur and billionaire

Sportsmen
  • Vladimir Arabadzhiev (born 1984), Bulgarian racing driver
  • Wladimir Balentien (born 1984), Curaçaoan-Dutch baseball player
  • Vladimír Coufal (born 1992), Czech footballer
  • Vladimir Dubov, Bulgarian freestyle wrestler 
  • Vladimir Guerrero (born 1975), Dominican baseball player
  • Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (born 1999), Canadian-Dominican baseball player
  • Wladimir Klitschko (born 1976), Ukrainian boxer
  • Vladimir Konstantinov (born 1967), Russian-American ice hockey player
  • Vladimir Kozlov (born 1979), Ukrainian-American producer and wrestler
  • Vladimir Kramnik (born 1975), Russian chess grandmaster
  • Vladimir Lutchenko, retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League
  • Vladimir Moragrega (born 1998), Mexican footballer
  • Vladimir Obuchov (1935–2020), Soviet basketball coach
  • Vladimir Orlando Cardoso de Araújo Filho (born 1989), Brazilian footballer
  • Vladimir Popov (weightlifter) (born 1977), Moldovan weightlifter
  • Vladimir Proskurin (1945–2020), Russian footballer
  • Vladimir Salkov (1937–2020), Russian footballer
  • Vladimir Sotnikov (born 2004), Russian Paralympic swimmer
  • Vladimir Stojković, Serbian professional footballer
  • Volodymyr Sydorenko (born 1976) Ukrainian former professional boxer
  • Vladimir Tarasenko (born 1991), Russian ice hockey player
  • Vladimir Petkov (born 1971), Bulgarian chess grandmaster
  • Vladimir Iliev (born 1987), Bulgarian biathlete
  • Vladimir Gadzhev (born 1987), Bulgarian footballer
  • Vladimir Nikolov (born 1977), Bulgarian volleyball player

Others

See also
  • All pages with titles beginning with Vladimir
  • Slavic names
  • Waldemar (disambiguation)
  • Walter (name)
  • Vladislav

References
  1. "Vladimir". Behind the Name. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  2. Max Vasmer, Etymological Dictionary of Russian Language s.v. "Владимир" (starling.rinet.ru, vasmer.narod.ru)
  3. Senderovich, Savely (2007). "К истории восточнославянского имени Владимир" (PDF). Славяноведение. 2: 10.
  4. Litvina, A. (2006). Выбор имени у русских князей в X—XVI вв. Династическая история сквозь призму антропонимики. Moscow: Indrik. p. 904. ISBN 5-85759-339-5.
  5. Henryk Paszkiewicz. The making of the Russian nation. Greenwood Press. 1977. Cracow 1996, pp. 77–79.
  6. С. В. Шевченко (ред.). К вопросу о дате основания г. Владимира, ТОО "Местное время", 1992. (S. V. Shevchenko (ed.). On the foundation date of Vladimir. in Russian)
  7. Ф.Б. Успенский, "ИМЯ И ВЛАСТЬ (Выбор имени как инструмент династической борьбы в средневековой Скандинавии)", In: Фольклор и постфольклор: структура, типология, семиотика ("Folklore and Post-Folklore: Structure, Typology and Semiotics")
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