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[christhiane.livejournal.com]

Not that I've ever wanted to actually have children, but I'm quite certain that I'd name my boys Nikita and Dmitri. The, the other day, I was thinking that in the unlikely event that I get three or four sons it'd be really stupid to stick a some of my other favourite boys names there, like Raphael, Julian, Justin, Jaycee, Jace or Kaycee, in there. With a little thinking I came up with two other boys name of Slavic/Russian origin, namely Alexis and Sasha.

So my question is, how does this subset look:

Nikita
Dmitri
Alexis
Sasha

(I'm aware that three of the names are more common on girls than on boys, but I just think they fit boys better.)

Comments

[noblwish.livejournal.com]

Actually, Nikita, Sasha and Alexis ARE boys names in Russia. They're not even unisex, if I'm not mistaken. It's only here in America that people use them as girl's names.

That said, I see nothing wrong with mixing ethnicities.

[christhiane.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought, too. They are thought of as unisex names here in Norway, too.

Well, the thing is that I'm Norwegian, and the Russian names work well in both Norwegian and English, while the English names (Justin, particuarly) doesn't fit the Norwegian pronounciation.