russian names

[babyeraserhead.livejournal.com]

my parents are pretty hung up on russian names. out of curiosity, here are a couple popular lists and the ones i like/tolerate are bolded. wdyt?

Males

Aleksei / Alexei
Alexander
Andrei
Anatoli
Anton
Arcadi
Artur / Arthur
Avery
Boris
Denis
Dmitri (my dad's name)
Edward
Eugene
Filipp / Phillip
Fyodor / Theodore
Georgi / George
Grigori / Gregory
Igor
Ilya
Ivan / John
Kirill
Konstantin / Constantine
Leonid
Lev / Leo
Maxim
Mark
Michael
Nikita
Nikolai / Nicholas
Oleg
Pavel / Paul
Pyotr / Peter
Rodion
Roman
Ruslan
Rustam
Semyon = Simon
Sergei
Stanislav
Stepan = Stephan
Svyatoslav
Timofei = Timothy
Vadim
Valentin 
Valeriy
Vasiliy
Victor
Vitaliy 
Vladimir
Vladislav 
Vyacheslav
Yakov = jacob
Yaroslav
Yegor 
Yuri 

Female

Alexandra
Alina
Alisa / Alice **
Alla 
Anastasia
Anna / Anya
Antonina
Angelica
Angelina
Daria
Dina
Ekaterina / Katherine 
Elena
Elizaveta / Elizabeth
Evgeniya
Galina
Inga
Inna
Irina
Klara / Clara
Klavdiya / Claudia
Kseniya / Xenia 
Larisa 
Lidia
Liliya / Lillia
Lyubov' = Love
Lyudmila (Ludmila)
Margarita
Marina
Maria / Mary **
Nadezhda = Nadia = Hope
Natalia = Natasha
Nelli 
Nina
Oksana
Olga
Olessia
Polina
Raisa = Raia
Rosalia
Svetlana
Tamara
Tatiana) = Tanya
Valentina
Valeria
Vera
Veronica
Victoria
Yevdokia = Dunya, Dusya
Julia
Zinaida
Zoya / Zoe

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

Speaking of russian names, anyone know how to pronounce Vlada?

I kind of like russian names as well. But pretty much only the girl names.

I like, Ekaterina, Irina, Natalia, Polina, Tatiana, and Victoria. All model names... maybe that's why!

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

Oh and I forgot, I love Valentina as well!

[babyeraserhead.livejournal.com]

Vlada is pronounced "VLAH-duh."
Tatiana is my mom's name and Valentina is my grandma's name, my name is Elena and my grandpa is Nikolai... so Russian hahah.

[babyeraserhead.livejournal.com]

oh and Vlada is usually short for Vladlena. "Vlad-LAY-na"

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

There's a model with the name Vlada (I'm sure it's not her REAL name but she uses it anyways). I always pronounced it so different, because I'm American. I kind of thought the L was silent, like VA-DA or even pronounced it like Valda - switched the A and the L's.

I like Vladlena, it's kind of pretty.

[makeitstopjamie.livejournal.com]

I like Russian names and European names in general:)

Just out of curiosity how would Maria be pronounced? My best friend's mom is first generation Polish and her given name is Maria (pronounced differntly than the typical American, I jsut can't remember what it is), but she goes by Mary.

[babyeraserhead.livejournal.com]

It's the same in Russian - ma-REE-uh.
In Polish they probably pronounce it "MAR-ya".

[makeitstopjamie.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's what it was.

[http://users.livejournal.com/--fourinchesx/]

How would you pronounce Raisa?

[babyeraserhead.livejournal.com]

Raisa is my great-aunt's name.
It is pronounced rah-EE-sa.
She always goes by Raia (Rye-ah).

[http://users.livejournal.com/--fourinchesx/]

Oh, just wondering. Because it's my name, and I was named after Mikhail Gorbachev's wife, Raisa. So, that's why I was wondering. Thank you!! :)

[ladydiddymus.livejournal.com]

I love Nikolai, Valentina, and Galina and probably some other ones too but it was a long list and I didn't keep track. I posted recently about names that matched my Polish boyfriend's last name and Misha topped my girl list, even though I know it's supposed to be a boy's pet name.

[brunhildevalkyr.livejournal.com]

We're naming our little one on the way Anastasia if she's a girl. We'll probably call her Anna for short.

[babyeraserhead.livejournal.com]

that's neat. :]
we call my cousin anastasia "nastya" because it's the more typical shortening of this name in russian.
i love anastasia but i'm not a huge fan of nastya... ana/anna or stacey makes much more sense to me.

[barelyshocking.livejournal.com]

I love Russian names, I think they're so melodic. I love the interesting shortening of names, ie. Alexander can be Sasha, Michael can be Misha and so forth.

[babyeraserhead.livejournal.com]

it's really fnny in russia, because there are usually many possible shortnames for one name, and most of the time the peson just likes one variation and hates the others.

don't call dmitri 'mitya' if he goes by 'dima'! or ludmila 'luda' if she likes 'mila'. ;)

[sloane-hd.livejournal.com]

Our neighbours are Russian. His name's Dmitri too.
His daughters are Anastasiya and Margarita.
The mother's name is Serrennaj.

My brother's horse is named Pyotr.

I really like Nikita for a boy but I'm afraid my son might get teased if I call him that. Around here Nikita is a girl's name.

[bobinwales.livejournal.com]

Aleksei
Alexander
Anton
Artur/Arthur
Edward
Phillip
Fyodor/Theodore
Lev/Leo

Alina
Alisa
Anya
Daria
Elena
Elizaveta/Elizabeth
Raisa = Raia
Rosalia
Tatiana
Valeria

I really like Russian names... maybe I should move to Russia so I can use some haha!

[ex-bluebonn.livejournal.com]

Ekaterina is just about my favourite Russian girl's name. So many cute nicknames, esp. Katia.