Lyudmila



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Name: Lyudmila

Gender: Feminine

Origin: Europe

Language: Russian

Thematic: Popular Culture

Meaning: The name Ludmila is a feminine variant of a Slavic name Ludmil which consists of two words "lud"-people-and "mil"- nice, pleasant. The name Ludmil is used quite often in Bulgaria. Lidmila (Slav.) means “pleasant with people”, it derives from the Indo-European root “spreading” and a Latin one that means “freedom”, “obstacle”.

Comments: This was the name of a character in Aleksandr Pushkin's poem 'Ruslan and Lyudmila' (1820).

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