The Russian Names I've Been Working On

[venturia2010.livejournal.com]

I had to look at different sites to find them, however, I finally finished the sets.

Here is the first set:
1. Pytor Georgiy___________
2. Valery Matryona__________
3. Aleksey Feodot___________
4. Faina Liouba_____________

Here is the second set:
1. Dmitriy Mikhail___________
2. Matryoshka Agrafina_________
3. Toma Innokenity_____________
4. Rada Yuliana________________

It was a bit harder than I expected to find these names(that and I forgot that the Russian alphabet is much different than the English alphabet). In case your wondering why I made a set of Russian names, I've always had a thing for Russians(although I still have to be discreet about it where I live due to the attitudes of most people around here and because for some weird reason, the upper midwest seems to think were in still dealing with the Cold War[still having a hard time figuring that one out])and I'd give the children Russian names to keep tradition and heritage alive.

Comments

[russian-mafia-x.livejournal.com]

The spellings of some are quite different from what is normally used by Russian-speaking people (most just use Luba instead of Liouba, etc.) Also, some seem to have first and middle name genders mixed up (Valery is a male name, Matryona is female; Toma is female, Innokenity is male). Otherwise, these are pretty, old-fashioned Russian names.

[venturia2010.livejournal.com]

I was starting to wonder about some of them when it some the spellings showed up much different than some othr sites and that some of the names showed up on female on one site, male on another, etc. I can always do some fine tweaking if tis needed.

[pirahan.livejournal.com]

The first comment is what I came to say.
You could use Vera instead of Valery. It comes from the word for truth, or believe, I'm pretty sure.
I never heard Rada as a name before. I know its the fem form for happy.

[venturia2010.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be doing some fine tweaking of the names(some may be the for the wrong gender)and I'll have an updated list when I'm done getting the tweaks and kinks all in order.

[breezy-boo.livejournal.com]

it seems that some of your names are actually nicknames or diminutives.
my husband is russian and so I know quite a few russian people and haven't really come across many of these names.
Lots of Vladimir's and Oleg's and Oxanna, Alexander/ Sasha, Olga... why are you choosing less popular russian names? (besides dmitri).
I also think you chose a lot that are fairly difficult to pronounce in english. What about Alla, or Alona, or Inna or Artem? All easily pronouncable but also russian or at least eastern european.

[venturia2010.livejournal.com]

The names I found were from at least five or six different sites and several of the names haven't been used in many years and it would keep them from scenarios where in a class of 25, 6 of the kids are named Irina or 10 are named Vladimir. When it comes to the issues surrounding pronounciation of the names, my kids will learn to deal with it and it will make for a good challenge of sorts.

[breezy-boo.livejournal.com]

do you plan on moving to russia?? because otherwise it seems unlikely that there would be a big overlap in russian names in a non-russian speaking country.

[venturia2010.livejournal.com]

I'll send you a message(there's a lot I have to explain)in a little bit.