Entry № 6132 · Russian origin

Lyudmila Lyudmila — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ lyood-MEE-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Russian
Meaning
"Dear to the people"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Slavic)

A name that means "dear to the people".

Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916-1974), the Soviet sniper credited with 309 confirmed kills in WWII, is the most famous bearer.

Dear to the people. The Soviet sniper.

The name in its native script.

Людмила
Transliteration
Lyudmila
Pronunciation
/ ljuːdˈmiː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

What Lyudmila is built from.

Lyudmila is a compound name. Its parts are milŭ — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

milŭ
Slavic
“dear, gracious”

Where Lyudmila stands.

Lyudmila does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lyudmilas before her.

Real people
Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Soviet WWII sniper.
1916 – 1974
In fiction
Lyudmila
Heroine of Pushkin's Ruslan and Lyudmila.
1820 poem

Names connected to Lyudmila.

The number behind Lyudmila.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lyudmila reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.