Hi, everyone! So I just got back from a week in beautiful RUSSIA. I can't wait to go back. It's the most amazing place I've ever been. My family is mostly from Russia (way back when), so it was sort of a homecoming, in a way. I didn't expect it to feel that way, but it just hit home for me in a way that even the U.S. doesn't.
Anyway, I was thinking a lot about names that overlap between Russian and English. For example,
Victoria /
Viktoriya / Виктория. Any name that is basically the same in English as it is in Russian, or has a direct translation, or simply makes sense in English (no difficult transliteration). I'd like to find some combos that include one or two of those names. I'm not sure how I feel about including non-Russian names in those combos, for instance,
Mariya Brooke or
Anna Felicity. Thoughts? Or would you combine them with other Russian names?
Opinions on the following would be much appreciated:
Anna (AH-na) "
Anya"
AllaAleksandra "
Sasha"
AndreiDmitri /
DimitriDominika (dom-i-NEE-ka) "
Nika"
Ekaterina "
Katya" or "
Katie"
Elizaveta "
Liza" (LEE-za)
Ivan (ee-VAHN) "
Vanya"
Irina (ee-REE-na)
KarinaKiraKlaraLarisa "
Lara"
LevLidiya /
LydiaLiliyaMaksim "
Maks"
Margarita "
Rita"
MarinaMariya "
Masha"
Mikhail "
Misha"
Nataliya "
Natasha"
Nikolai "
Kolya"
Nikita (m)
Olga "
Olya"
RoksanaSergeiSofiya "
Sonya"
Tatiana "
Tanya"
TamaraValentinaVeronika "
Nika"
Viktoriya /
Victoria "Vika"
Vladimir (vla-DEE-meer) "
Volodya" or "
Vova"
Yakov "
Yasha"
Yulia /
YuliyaYuliana /
YuliannaZoya