Vladimir
Vladimir is a boy's name that peaked in 2016, when it was the 1,090th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,826th. About 5,600 Vladimirs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Vladimir
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,190
- Estimated living today
- 5,600
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 2016
- Best rank
- 1,090th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,826th
- First recorded
- 1913
How old the living Vladimirs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,190 babies given the name since 1913, about 5,600 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 2,500 of them are children and 90 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Russian
From Russian Владимир, 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, Old Church Slavonic Владимѣръ, from Proto-Slavic *Voldiměrъ (which see for more), equivalent to владь (“power”) (which is from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“be strong”)) and мѣръ (“great”), changed by folk etymology into миръ (“peace”). Compare Waldemar.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Vladimirs
- Vladimir Putin (born 1952)President of Russian Federation
- Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924)founding leader of the Soviet Union
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)Russian and Soviet poet
- Vladimir Vysotsky (1938–1980)Soviet singer-songwriter and actor
- Vladimir the Great (956–1015)Grand Prince of Kiev
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946–2022)Russian politician
- Vladimir Kramnik (born 1975)Russian chess grandmaster
People named Vladimir with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Vladimir is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Vladimir is most concentrated in Florida (3.7×), New York (3.5×), California (2.6×), Washington (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2016
The most popular boys’ names the year Vladimir peaked:
Vladimir elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Vladimir | 2,840 | 436th |
| England and Wales boys | Vladimir | 564 | 592nd |
| Norway boys | Vladimir | 471 | 212th |
| Belgium boys | Vladimir | 184 | 821st |
| Switzerland boys | Vladimir | 143 | 427th |
| Ireland boys | Vladimir | 39 | 552nd |
| Poland boys | Vladimir | 14 birth registrations | 474th |
| Scotland boys | Vladimir | 3 | 711th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Vladimir: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Vladimir | 73 | 0.006% | 694th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Vladimir | 61 | 0.014% | 261st |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Vladimir | 9 | 0.014% | 113th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Vladimir is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 29 of them.
Vladimir: rank by region
In 2025, Vladimir was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Vladimir | 914 | 5 |
In 2021, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Vladimir appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (254th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Vladimir by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 7 | 515th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Vladimir among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Vladimir | 556 | 661 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Vladimir lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 3,448 men called Vladimir were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Vladimir | 502 | 0.499 | 213 |
| Girona | Vladimir | 165 | 0.396 | 272 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Vladimir | 145 | 0.272 | 375 |
| Tarragona | Vladimir | 114 | 0.260 | 378 |
| Málaga | Vladimir | 216 | 0.247 | 294 |
| Valencia/València | Vladimir | 292 | 0.216 | 380 |
Listed in 46 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 6 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Vladimir against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.