Pick your favourite Slavic name

General Name Discussion
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For some time now I’ve been quite obsessed with Slavic names because of my heritage but I’m just not able to pick my personal favourites so I thought I would ask you guys: Which ones are your favourites based on this collection?

For girls:
[name_f]Nadezhda[/name_f] - [name_u]Love[/name_u] that name, it means hope in several Slavic languages, Nicknames are [name_f]Nadyenka[/name_f], [name_f]Nadie[/name_f], [name_f]Nadya[/name_f]
Ralitsa -
Velika -
Svesda - means star, stress is on the last sillable
Nevena - means [name_f]Marigold[/name_f] and I think it’s a unique option to the upcoming Marigol
Desislava - it’s a [name_m]Saint[/name_m]'s name and a very old one. The meaning is ‘tenth glory’
Snezhana - snow girl
Iskra
[name_f]Taina[/name_f] - means secret, stress on the first sillable
Kalyna - guelder rose
[name_f]Ruzha[/name_f]
Jagoda - strawberry
[name_f]Malina[/name_f] - raspberry
Rusalka - a mermaid in Russian mythology
[name_f]Lelya[/name_f]
Morana - goddess of [name_u]Winter[/name_u] & death (I’m quite fond of low-key goth names but I guess not everyone likes that)
Marzyana
Kirochka
Ivelina

For boys:
[name_m]Teodor[/name_m] - love that name, my favourite family member wears it but I wonder if it’s too old fashioned
Nayden
Nedyalko - born on a [name_f]Sunday[/name_f] (Nickname: Nedelcho (ch pronounced like a Tsch))
Jezero - lake
Jaro
[name_m]Rurik[/name_m]
Valko - wolf (this one is hard to write correctly in Latin letters because the a is pronounced like a Bulgarian ъ (Вълко)

What do you think? Which ones are your favourites? I might use the best ones for one of my writing projects and stories in the future. right now I haven’t got the time but it would be good to narrow down the list to the best ones.

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I love Slavic names! From your list, I especially like [name_f]Nadezhda[/name_f], Jagoda, Rusalka, [name_m]Teodor[/name_m] and Jaro.

Also love:

[name_f]Tatiana[/name_f]
[name_f]Ekaterina[/name_f], [name_f]Katya[/name_f], [name_f]Katenka[/name_f]
[name_f]Elizaveta[/name_f]
[name_f]Agata[/name_f]
[name_f]Anya[/name_f], [name_f]Annushka[/name_f]
[name_f]Zofia[/name_f], [name_f]Zosia[/name_f]
[name_f]Zuzanna[/name_f]
[name_f]Galina[/name_f]
[name_f]Irina[/name_f]
[name_f]Yelena[/name_f]
[name_f]Natalia[/name_f]
[name_f]Oksana[/name_f]
[name_f]Sveta[/name_f]
[name_f]Zoya[/name_f]
[name_f]Katarzyna[/name_f]

[name_m]Aleksei[/name_m] ([name_f]Alyosha[/name_f])
[name_m]Nikolai[/name_m]
[name_u]Nikita[/name_u]
[name_m]Georgii[/name_m]
[name_m]Serezha[/name_m] (nn for [name_m]Sergei[/name_m])
[name_u]Sasha[/name_u]
[name_m]Matvei[/name_m]
[name_u]Konstantin[/name_u]
[name_m]Valentin[/name_m]
[name_m]Lev[/name_m]
Leontii
Mikolaj
[name_m]Mikhail[/name_m]
Lukasz, [name_m]Tomasz[/name_m], Tadeusz, [name_m]Janusz[/name_m] (anything ending -asz or -usz, basically!)

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From your list I really like Nevena (I have Nevenka on my masterlist and I love [name_f]Marigold[/name_f] too), [name_f]Lelya[/name_f], Morana, Rusalka, Jaro, and Valko. Plus I absolutely adore [name_m]Nikolai[/name_m] and [name_m]Aleksei[/name_m].