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

LYUDMILA

GENDER: Feminine

OTHER SCRIPTS: Людмила (Russian, Bulgarian), Лыѹдмила (Church Slavic)

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

Meaning & History

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

Related Names

VARIANTS: Ludmilla (Russian), Ludmilla (Bulgarian)

MASCULINE FORM: Lyudmil (Bulgarian)

OTHER LANGUAGES: Ludmila, Lída (Czech), Ludmiła (Polish), Ljudmila (Slovene), Lyudmyla (Ukrainian)

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