Comments for VADIM:

Very old Slavic name meaning "driven by something".

-- olga  1/13/2006

Vadim is a unique name, NOT a truncation of Vladimir. Vadim comes from the Slavic vedet. It still exists in Czech, Polish but it is mainly popular in Russia.
(Slavic meaning) "A powerful ruler" and in addition "the knowing one"
(Greek meaning) "deceiving and unpredictable"

-- Anonymous User  6/16/2006

Not a form of Vladimir. It actually means "driven" (archaic).

-- shiroi  7/27/2006

Pronounced vah-DEEM.

-- Lisie  10/19/2006

Commonly shortened to Vadik. [noted -ed]

-- Lisie  10/19/2006

This name isn't so popular these days. I don't know many Vadims. My father's name is Vadim but everyone calls him Vadik. This is a nice and easy name but for some reason a lot of people mispronounce it.

-- Anonymous User  11/7/2007

A famous bearer of the name is former Laskovyj Maj soloist Andrej Razin, whose real name is Vadim Krivorotov.

(Info courtesy of http://gosdetstvo.ru/razin)

-- Wierka  1/11/2009

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