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Людмила
“dear to the people”
Людмила (Ljudmíla) is a feminine given name, probably from Czech. It is used in Russian and Ukrainian.
Bulgarian and Russian and UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Ludmila.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Людмила goes back to a word meaning “dear to the people.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Людмила’s family of names
In Russian usage, Людмила has a diminutive in Лю́да. In Russian usage, Людмила shares a linguistic root with the Polish form Ludmiła. In Bulgarian usage, Людмила has a conventional equivalent in the French form Ludmila.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Людмила has relatives in 10 languages. Lines run from its Czech roots to each of them.
Czechwhere Людмила comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 14
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 7
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Людмила
- Lyudmila PavlichenkoSoviet sniper (1916–1974)
- Lyudmila PutinaRussian linguist and 1983–2013 wife of Russian president Vladimir Putinborn 1958
- Lyudmila UlitskayaRussian writerborn 1943
- Lyudmila GurchenkoSoviet and Russian theater and film actress, singer, composer, director (1935—2011)
- Lyudmila RudenkoSoviet chess player (1904-1986)
- Ludmilla RadchenkoRussian fashion designerborn 1978
- Lyudmila ChernykhSoviet astronomer1935–2017
- Lyudmila AlexeyevaSoviet-Russian human rights activist (1927–2018)
- Lyudmila PetrushevskayaRussian writerborn 1938
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