Given name
Ľudmila
“people, nation”·“dear, kind”
Ľudmila is a feminine given name from Proto-Slavic. It is used in Old Czech and Slovak.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ľudmila is built from elements meaning “people, nation” and “dear, kind”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Built from Proto-Slavic *ľȗdъ (“people, nation”) + *milъ (“dear, kind”) + *-a.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ľudmila’s family of names
In Slovak usage, Ľudmila has a diminutive in Ľudmilka. In Slovak usage, Ľudmila shares a linguistic root with the Polish form Ludmiła. In Slovak usage, Ľudmila has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Ludmila.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ľudmila has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Slavic roots to each of them.
4 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ľudmila
- Ľudmila PajdušákováSlovak astronomer (1916-1979)
- Ľudmila PodjavorinskáCzechoslovak poet, writer and children books writer1872–1951
- Ľudmila CervanováSlovak tennis playerborn 1979
- Ľudmila MilanováSlovak alpine skierborn 1967
- Ľudmila MaťavkováSlovak association football playerborn 1998
- Ľudmila GajdošíkováCzechoslovak member of Czechoslovak parliament, lawyer, constitutional judge and Slovak nation politician1953–2025
- Ľudmila MelicherováSlovak long-distance runnerborn 1964
- Ľudmila ChmelíkováCzechoslovak basketball player (born 1955)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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