Meaning, origin and history of the name Lyudmila

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Gender Feminine

Scripts Людмила(Russian, Bulgarian) Лыѹдмила(Church Slavic)

Pronounced Pron. lyuwd-MYEE-lə(Russian)

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Meaning & History

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

VariantsLudmila, Ludmilla(Russian) Ludmilla(Bulgarian)

Masculine FormLyudmil(Bulgarian)

Other Languages & CulturesLudmila, Lída, Lidmila(Czech) Ludmila(Latvian) Ludmiła(Polish) Ljudmila(Slovene) Lyudmyla(Ukrainian)

A Dictionary of Period Russian Names, available from http://heraldry.sca.org/paul/