Baltic / Eastern European name suggestions?

Trying to broaden my list to discover some more interesting and unique names. I like things that are lesser common in Western Europe, as I am from the UK.

Anything welcome, no criteria! [name_m]Just[/name_m] unique and pretty names :slight_smile:

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Bozhidara
Aksinia
[name_f]Nevena[/name_f]
[name_f]Renata[/name_f]
Zaharina
[name_m]Sashka[/name_m]
[name_f]Antonina[/name_f]
[name_f]Zoya[/name_f]
[name_f]Catrinel[/name_f]
Leontina
[name_f]Estera[/name_f]
Ingrida
[name_f]Miruna[/name_f]
[name_f]Petronella[/name_f]

[name_f]Rinoa[/name_f]

I could write the longest post ever because most of my favourites are Eastern European haha but I’m down with a cold and too low energy for that :sweat_smile: So I’ll just link my listography here in case it’s useful !! listography: maya I have lists of Hungarian, Romanian, Greek, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Russian, [name_m]South[/name_m] Slavic & Baltic names listed with their pronunciations and meanings (:

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Estonian names:

Summary

Many of these are a bit dated now. All of these are super common here, among the age group 40-100. A lot of these are word names. :blush:

Lenna (to fly)
Lumi (snow)
Suvi (summer)
Säde (spark)
Õnne, Õnneleid (bessing)
Heli (sound)
Helin (soft sound of bells)
Sirelin (a word play for lilacs)
Koidu (dawn )
Pilve (cloud+ e)
Tuuli (wind+ y)
Lill, Lilli (flower)
Anneli
Anu
Annika
Neleri, Nelery (love this actually)
Endla
Asta
Elo
Juta (Iutta)
Kertu
Leelo (archaic word for singing)
Luule (poetry)
Linda
Marit (basically Marritt)
Marju (mari means berry)
Mari
Margit
Edda
Merike, Merle (meri means sea)
Meeli
Kai, Kaie (super feminine here)
Triin, Triinu (a bit like Trinity. Triin is super common)
Salme
Hanna (Hannaloore etc)
Signe
Tiina
Tiiu
Vaike
Virve (will-o’-the-wisp inspired)

I also love these (a mix)

Summary

Gintarė (Lithuanian)
Daria
Ieva
Laima
Vilmantė
Anastasia
Jekaterina
Katarina
Ruslana
Tatiana
Tamara
Natalia (love Natasha, the nn)
Anna (Anya is such a cute nn)
Viktoria
Ksenia
Lubov
Irina
Olga
Liudmila
Olesya
Oleksandra
Nina
Ulyana
Veronika
Varvara
Vasilisa (gp :heart_eyes:)

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Kveta and [name_f]Zaneta[/name_f]!

I love your listography really. [name_m]Can[/name_m] I steal some of the names?

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@heartwings I was just thinking the same thing :joy: honestly @tallemaja this is such a beautiful listography!

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@heartwings @Goldenfox thank you both!! :yellow_heart: i’d be delighted if someone took inspo from my lists to use any of these names for their own combos, that’s why i collect them :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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