Yesterday me and my friends where online chatting with a Spanish guy and he was wondering what his name would look like in Russian. I thought that maybe you, berries, would like to know what your names (or your favorite names) would look like in Russian, too.
As you know, we have a different alphabet. My name, [name_f]Polina[/name_f], is spelled Полина in Russian. Some English names (I mean names used in English-speaking countries) also have their Russian variation. For example, [name_f]Ekaterina[/name_f] is a Russian form of [name_f]Catherine[/name_f]. So if your name has a Russian form, I will tell you that, too.
@faith, it’s a little bit difficult with your name, because we don’t have TH sound in [name_f]Russia[/name_f] so there’s no letter for it. The closest to original would be Файз.
@bonfireazalea, I guess if Russians who don’t speak English saw [name_f]Lauren[/name_f] written down, they’d try to pronounce it Lah-oo-REHN, these who know English well would probably say it correctly, but most people would ask you how to pronounce it. [name_f]Lauren[/name_f] is unheard in [name_f]Russia[/name_f]. It’s Лорин.
@lightsea, well, there’s no Russian form of your name, but it’s not difficult to write any name with Russian letters except these that have TH sound. It’s МакКенна.
[name_m]How[/name_m] cool! My husband studied Russian a bit in college and after we got married, I would accidentally turn our keyboard to Cyrillic and forget how to turn it back. Fun times.
@julyacs, that’s funny! [name_f]Emily[/name_f] is Эмили. I’ve never heard of Russian girls named [name_f]Emily[/name_f], but I have a friend whose name is [name_f]Emilia[/name_f], which is quite close. She goes by [name_f]Mila[/name_f].