Vadim
Appearance
Gender | Male |
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Origin | |
Word/name | Persian or Slavic |
Region of origin | Eastern Europe |
Other names | |
Variant form(s) | Vadik, Vadya |
Vadim is a Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Slovene and Macedonian masculine given name derived either from the Persian badian (anise or aniseed),[1] or from the ancient Russian word volod (Russian: волод), meaning to rule or vaditi (Russian: вадити), meaning to blame. Its long version, Vadimir, is now obsolete.[2] This given name is highly popular in Russia (as Vadim), Ukraine (as Vadym), Belarus (as Vadzim), Moldova, Slovenia, North Macedonia.
Given name
- Bademus or Vadim (died 376), Persian martyr and saint widely venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church
- Vadim the Bold legendary chieftain
- Vadim Abdrashitov (born 1945), Russian film director
- Vadim Alekseyev (born 1970), Soviet-Israeli swimmer
- Vadim Antonov (born 1965), Russian-American software engineer and entrepreneur
- Vadim Bakatin (born 1937), former Soviet politician
- Vadim Belyaev, Russian banker
- Vadim Bichutskiy, American data scientist and engineer
- Vadim Boreț (born 1976), Moldovan football manager and former player
- Vadim Cemîrtan (born 1987), Moldovan footballer
- Vadim Cobîlaș (born 1983), Moldovan rugby union player
- Vadim Crîcimari (born 1988), Moldovan footballer
- Vadim Devyatovskiy (born 1977), Belarusian hammer thrower
- Vadim Evseev (born 1976), Russian soccer player
- Vadim Gutzeit (born 1971), Ukrainian Olympic champion sabre fencer
- Vadim Jean (born 1963), British film director
- Vadim Khamuttskikh (born 1969), Russian volleyball player
- Vadim Khomitsky (born 1982), Russian ice hockey player
- Vadim Krasnoselsky (born 1970), Transnistrian politician
- Vadim Krasnoslobodtsev (born 1983), Kazakhstani ice hockey player
- Vadim Mogilnitsky (1935–2012), Russian mathematics teacher, musicologist, translator and poet
- Vadim Perelman (born 1963), Russo-American director and producer
- Vadim Pirogan (1921–2007), Bessarabian activist and author
- Vadim Rață (born 1993), Moldovan footballer
- Vadim Repin (born 1971), Russian violinist
- Vadim Sashurin (born 1970), Belarusian biathlete
- Vadim Shipachyov (born 1987), Russian ice hockey player
- Vadim Tudor (born 1949), Romanian politician
- Vadims Vasiļevskis (born 1982), Latvian athlete
- Vadim Yefremovich (1903–1989), Soviet mathematician
- Vadim Yusov (1929–2013), Soviet and Russian cinematographer
Surname
- Christian Vadim (born 1963), French actor, son of Roger
- David Vadim (born 1972), Russian actor
- Nathalie Vadim (born 1958), French film director, daughter of Roger and sister of Christian
- Roger Vadim (1928–2000), French screenwriter, film director and producer
References
- ^ Vadim on filae.com Dictionary of French Names
- ^ ВАДИМ, -а, м. Ст.-русск. Dictionary of Russian Names
See also
- Dalailama vadim, a moth