Nice alternative to [name_u]Emmett[/name_u] & El(l)io(t)t!
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I love Russian names and have tons of them on my list. [name_f]My[/name_f] SO has Russian heritage and I can speak Russian. One of my twins is a [name_m]Leonid[/name_m] (Lenya), as you probably know 
I tend to like Russian boys names more than girls names, as the girls names tend to be rather frilly, which isnāt my style. But [name_f]Elizaveta[/name_f] is on the top of my list.
[name_f]My[/name_f] other favorite Russian boys names are Artemy, Yermolai/Ermolai, [name_u]Sasha[/name_u], Gerasim, [name_u]Boris[/name_u], [name_m]Gennady[/name_m], [name_u]Nikita[/name_u], [name_m]Pyotr[/name_m], Yefim/Efim, [name_m]Zinovy[/name_m], [name_m]Anatoly[/name_m], [name_m]Lavrenty[/name_m] & Nikifor.
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Polish names are great. Iāve always wanted to honor my Polish heritage in my childrenās names, but my SO and I couldnāt agree on any of them. A little [name_m]Tadeusz[/name_m] would be so wonderful.
[name_f]My[/name_f] other Polish favorites are [name_f]Beata[/name_f], [name_f]Betsabe[/name_f], Eligia, [name_f]Elzbieta[/name_f] & [name_f]Malgosia[/name_f], and for boys [name_m]Cezary[/name_m], [name_m]Felicjan[/name_m], [name_m]Gerwazy[/name_m], [name_m]Janusz[/name_m], Jozafat & [name_m]Konstantyn[/name_m].
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[name_f]My[/name_f] favorite Russian name is [name_m]Luka[/name_m]! Followed by [name_m]Osip[/name_m] and [name_f]Mariya[/name_f] āMashaā
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Anatoly is really sweet, but it also feels a lot more āstereotypicalā Russian than Leonid, for example, which is why I donāt think I could get away w/ using it without having any Russian heritage. Though, funnily enough, two of my fatherās names are Russian and both my middle names rank very high in Moskow, so maybe as a nod to that, haha.
For girls, I tend to prefer the nicknames - Masha, Anushka, Polya, Vika, however, many of the ones currently popular on NB have taken me a while to come around to as theyāve been really popular 40+ years ago where I grew up.
As for Polish names, I really like Anatol (which I like even more than Anatoly), Jaromir, Kazimierz & Zuzia but have no idea how popular/dated they are. Janusz is also really sweet and Elzbieta & Betsabe could make really sweet nicknames for Elizabeth if one canāt quite commit to them.
One name Iām surprised is not more popular on here is Anka, I feel like it would fit quite a few peopleās styles.
I see you also have a German flag in your UC, is that also part of your heritage?
I didnāt know Luka was a Russian name, here itās mainly used as a spelling variation of Luca, for both boys and girls. Osip is really sweet, maybe w/ the nickname Pip? And Masha is such a sweet nickname!
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Also, Iāve been looking at the names on my family tree and have come across Iscla and Balmon, which may be surnames, with Spanish/Catalan naming laws you can never be sure, but have not had any luck with finding out the meaning - does anyone have an idea?
I donāt know if this works but MaÅ”a is a nice name that is Slavic or spelled alternately Masha! I know a Masha irl as she is Serbian lol. Other slavic names that I like are Malina, Danica, Violeta, and Sofija. Violeta and Malina arenāt really traditional Slavic names, I think theyāre more modern Slavic names, but they have nice meanings to them! For boys I think Novak & Ivo are also nice names!
I donāt have any German relatives, but we moved to Germany when I was about in my early teens. My SO is half German though.
Oh, how fun to have so many different languages you can fall back on when naming your children! [name_f]Do[/name_f] you speak any other languages besides Icelandic, Russian and [name_m]German[/name_m] (if youāve lived there long enough to speak it)?
Also, do you and your SO use the same pronunciations for your kidsā names (if you speak different languages?) or do you both use the pronunciation that is used where you live? Iām always curious if people use names that sound the same in different languages or if the differences between pronunciations make the names more interesting.
You donāt have to answer any of those of course, haha, just what youāre comfortable with sharing!
I also speak Polish (Iām 25% Polish), [name_f]English[/name_f] of course, [name_u]French[/name_u] (conversational level) and a tiny bit of Swedish. [name_f]My[/name_f] SO speaks Russian, [name_m]German[/name_m] and Hebrew with his family. [name_f]My[/name_f] oldest son (who has a different dad) is trilingual, we raise our other sons bilingual.
We pronounce our childrenās names almost the same in every language, but there are minor differences. For example, my SO usually pronounces the y in [name_m]Endymion[/name_m] as Ć¼ (as in new) while I say it like āihā. All of this means Iām not a stickler for pronunciation. In our families we get all kinds of pronunciations 
I say en-dih-MEE-ohn, some of our family members says en-DIH-mee-ohn (like you would do in English). And with [name_m]Leonid[/name_m], we did correct some of our family members who kept saying LEO-nid instead of Leo-NEED. We use the Russian nickname [name_f]Lenya[/name_f], and so do SOās family members, but some of my family insists on calling him [name_m]Leo[/name_m] because they donāt know the first thing about Russian or the diminutives. I asked them to use his full name instead.
So yeah, itās always rather complicated in our families 
But also very interesting.
I love this but sadly my sister (who I donāt really get along with) is named Mah!na. 
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[name_f]Malina[/name_f] means raspberries in Russian 
I find it cute, though
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Lenya is really sweet (though I also like Leo, but prefer the English pronunciation to the āEuropean Eā Leo, however, the Lio spelling doesnāt appeal to me at all). Does Endymion also have a (Russian) nickname?
Haha, but with that many different cultures involved, I donāt think I would expect anything different. And that youāre able to pass all the different traditions on to your sons must be awesome!
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Not unlike your own combos! Polly Cordelia and Rose Antonia are so beautiful and Fitzwilliam Henry feels like it would be Mr. Darcyās full name.
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Oh, thank you! 
Greatest compliment Iāve ever received on a name. 
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It means the same thing in Polish. Personally I donāt really like Malina, but the meaning doesnāt bother me. Thereās also Jagoda, which means berry in Polish (and strawberry in a few other languages, I think?) and thatās a very popular name in Poland.
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Been thinking about hypothetical twins named Gilbert and Winifred. How darling would that be?! Iām thinking Gilbert March and Winifred Eve. 
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They would, indeed, be adorable. Iām not the biggest [name_f]Winifred[/name_f] fan, though [name_f]Winnie[/name_f] is adorable, but [name_f]Winifred[/name_f] and [name_m]Gilbert[/name_m] are so charming, they remind me very much of [name_u]Anne[/name_u] of [name_u]Green[/name_u] Gables.
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I forgot to reply to this earlier, sorry 
Endymion doesnāt have a Russian nickname. We called him Dymi for a while right after he was born, but that didnāt seem to fit him. Then my oldest son started calling him Enno and that kind of stuck.