I was wondering what you guys think about Slavic names. I have a lot of Russian/Ukrainian family, and grew up surrounded by the Russian language. I think it’s very pretty and decided to look into the names. However, I haven’t found too much information on Russian names online.
Out of the ones I found/know, I gathered a small list. For boys, I like [name]Ilia[/name], Dmitriy, Andrey, [name]Vasily[/name], [name]Alexei[/name], and [name]Matvei[/name]. I also love [name]Sasha[/name]! For girls, [name]Eva[/name], [name]Lilia[/name], [name]Yulia[/name], [name]Emma[/name], [name]Svetlana[/name], [name]Raisa[/name], [name]Zoya[/name], Iskra, and [name]Valentina[/name]. [name]Mila[/name] is also very pretty and simple.
Some of my Russian family members are named [name]Dalia[/name], [name]Aron[/name], [name]Sasha[/name], [name]Lyuba[/name], Inna, [name]Yuliana[/name], [name]Marsha[/name], [name]Natalia[/name], [name]Daniil[/name], and [name]Feliks[/name]. Pretty standard overall.
What do you guys think? What Slavic/Russian names, or names used in Russian, do you know/like?
I think [name]Irina[/name], [name]Zoya[/name], [name]Nadezhda[/name], and [name]Vera[/name] are beautiful - but only with a Russian accent! Names that are more univeral are [name]Marina[/name], [name]Natalya[/name], [name]Lilya[/name], [name]Eva[/name], [name]Ekaterina[/name]/[name]Katya[/name], [name]Larisa[/name]/[name]Lara[/name].
For boys, I love all the names on your list, except I haven’t heard [name]Matvei[/name] before (I’m not a native Russian speaker so that doesn’t mean anything!). I also love [name]Anton[/name], [name]Roman[/name], [name]Lev[/name]/[name]Liev[/name], and [name]Marek[/name].
I also love Russian “diminutives” - I love how they tend to keep adding letters rather than shorten the name (e.g. [name]Yulia[/name] - Yulechka, [name]Larisa[/name] --> [name]Lara[/name] --> Larochka). You are lucky you have Russian/Ukrainian heritage - gives you a lot of wonderful names to choose from!
I [name]LOVE[/name] [name]Nikita[/name] for a girl! I also love how they lengthen or change names altogether to make affectionate diminutives and nn’s. I have a Polish friend with the (apparently very common) name, Malgorzata ([name]Margaret[/name]), but goes by Gosia (goshya) or Goska (goshka). AND they celebrate their NAMING day as well as their birthday(a nameberry’s paradise? Lol!), but I think that has to do with [name]Saint[/name]'s names/days.
My mother’s name is [name]Veronika[/name] (although she now spells it the more common [name]Veronica[/name]). I’ve never really liked that name, but it does sound sort of exotic.
I forgot about [name]Lev[/name]/[name]Liev[/name]! That one is nice, too. Yeah, lots of names sound a lot nicer with the Russian accent, like [name]Mikhail[/name] ([name]Michael[/name]) and [name]Pyotr[/name] ([name]Peter[/name]).
Russian diminutes are great! My mom is ALWAYS calling me [name]Nikita[/name] - personally, I don’t like it, but alas… :lol: My cousin who is [name]Dalia[/name] is always getting called Daluchi.
