Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Lyudmila

LYUDMILA

Gender: Feminine

Other Scripts: Людмила (Russian, Bulgarian)

Pronounced: lyood-MEE-lah (Russian) [key]

Russian and Bulgarian form of LUDMILA. This was the name of a character in Aleksandr Pushkin's poem 'Ruslan and Lyudmila' (1820).