| Volodymyr | |
|---|---|
| Gender | male |
| Origin | |
| Word/Name | Ukrainian, Old-slavic native |
| Meaning | possessor of the world, people |
| Region of origin | Ukraine |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Vladimir, Waldemar |
Volodymyr (Володимир) is a Ukrainian male given name.
The name is a direct descendant from the Old East Slavic Володимир (Volodimir), which is spelled identically in Cyrillic, but transliterated differently because of changes in the Ukrainian alphabet since medieval times. The meaning of the name is "possessor of the world, people". Volodia (Володя) and Vovik (Vovik) is a short version of this name. The same Slavic sources also produced the Russian and Serbian variant Vladimir, as well as Danish and German Waldemar.