Russian name - a personal name that exists in Russian, which is assigned to a person at birth or change of name. Partly, the Russian names coincide with the Orthodox, which they name when performing the sacrament of baptism, but are not identical to them. Russian names form a special system in the Russian language.

• Russian name - a personal name given at birth, usually one, but in antiquity several names could be given.
• Russian middle name - patronym, an indication of the name of the father. Has an ending - (in) ich, - (in) on; in antiquity also -ov, -in is similar to modern surnames.
• Russian last name or Russian surnames - inherited from generation to generation on the male line (or female). Usually the original Russian surname ends with -ov / -ev / -ev (from the foundations of the second declension: Petrov, Konev, Zhuravlev) or -in / -yn (from the foundations of the first declension: Fomin, Sinitsyn); -skiy (Christmas, Vysotsky); -th (Tolstoy, Spring, Lanovoy); less often their / s (Russian, Petrov).

The Russian name formula has its own word order. The name, as a rule, comes first. Violation of order, however, will not be a mistake. A distinctive feature of the Russian nominal formula from most European is the presence of a middle name.

The full name of the person includes the last name, first name and patronymic. There are additional forms of the name - nickname and diminutive form.

With the adoption of Christianity in Russia, many of the original Russian names were lost. They were supplanted by the names of Greek, Latin, Jewish origin. So the name Pavel (Paul) is Latin, Catherine is Greek, and Maria (Mary) is Jewish.

Original Russian names

Most of the original Russian names can be recognized by three main signs.

• Firstly, their meaning can be understood today. For example, Bogdan is given by God.
• Secondly, most of the names of our ancestors had a bright, joyful, good meaning. They believed that the name was able to determine the fate of a person, so they chose happy names for babies. For example, Lubomir is the one who loves the world.
• Thirdly, most of the names of Slavic origin, consisted of two basic roots. For example, Lyudmila, Miroslava, Dobronrav.

Popular Russian names

Below is a list of the most popular Russian names, divided into groups: male and female.

Russian names for girls

Alice, Alexandra, Alena, Alina, Alla, Anastasia, Angelica, Anna, Valentina, Valeria, Vera, Veronika, Victoria, Galina, Daria, Diana, Eva, Eugene, Ekaterina, Elena, Elizabeth, Jeanne, Inna, Irina, Karina, Kristina, Ksenia, Larisa, Love, Lyudmila, Margarita, Marina, Maria, Mila, Milana, Nadezhda, Natalya, Nika, Nina, Oksana, Olesya, Olga, Polina, Ruslana, Svetlana, Sofia, Tamara, Tatyana, Julia, Jana

Russian names for boys

Alexander, Alexey, Anatoly, Andrey, Anton, Arkady, Artyom, Arthur, Boris, Vadim, Valentin, Valery, Vasily, Victor, Vitaliy, Vladimir, Vladislav, Vyacheslav, George, Grigory, Denis, Dmitry, Eugene, Egor, Ivan, Igor, Ilya, Kirill, Konstantin, Leo, Leonid, Maxim, Mark, Mikhail, Nikita, Nikolai, Oleg, Pavel, Peter, Roman, Ruslan, Sergey, Timur, Fedor, Yuri, Yaroslav

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