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Old East Slavic roots
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01 / Meaning & origin
Вадим is a masculine given name documented in Russian, Kazakh, Romanian and 1 other language. English Wiktionary traces it to Old East Slavic Вадимъ.
Inherited from Old East Slavic Вадимъ (Vadimŭ), diminutive of Вадимиръ (Vadimirŭ); compare вадить (vaditʹ, “to argue; to tame”) (see Proto-Slavic *vaditi).
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Transnistrian political figure (born 1970)
Russian film director (1945–2023)
Russian ice hockey player
last chairman of the KGB (1937–2022)
Russian footballer
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