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

[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"

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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.