Lyudmila
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- [ lyood-MEE-lah (Russian) ]
- Russian, Bulgarian, Medieval Slavic
Russian and Bulgarian form of LUDMILA. This was the name of a character in Aleksandr Pushkin's poem 'Ruslan and Lyudmila' (1820).
 | LUDMILA female Czech, Russian Means "favour of the people" from the Slavic elements lyudu "people" and milu "gracious, dear". Saint Ludmila was a 10th-century duchess of Bohemia, the grandmother of Saint Václav. She was murdered on the orders of her daughter-in-law Drahomíra.As a Russian name, this is a variant transcription of Людмила (usually rendered LYUDMILA). | |||||||||||||||||||