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I think I fell in love with Svetlana while trying to fall asleep last night. As a native speaker of English who has studied Russian but is far from fluent in it, I'm charmed by the sonic contrast between "svet" and "lana" — whereas the former is sharp and self-contained, the latter is open and supple. I'm aware that my pronunciation of "svet" is way more strident than a native Russian speaker's pronunciation, of course.

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What do you think of this name? These combos?

Svetlana Birgitta
Svetlana Celestina
Svetlana Coppelia
Svetlana Cornelia
Svetlana Cosima
Svetlana Cosmia
Svetlana Crescentia
Svetlana Eloisa
Svetlana Erasmia
Svetlana Eugenia
Svetlana Eulalia
Svetlana Everilda
Svetlana Fabiola
Svetlana Fabricia
Svetlana Frederica
Svetlana Gunilla
Svetlana Hemera
Svetlana Henrietta
Svetlana Herais
Svetlana Hesperia
Svetlana Hypatia
Svetlana Iolanthe
Svetlana Isabella *
Svetlana Isidora
Svetlana Ismeria
Svetlana Margarita
Svetlana Marika
Svetlana Mathilda
Svetlana Mimosa
Svetlana Perdita
Svetlana Pernilla
Svetlana Primula
Svetlana Radhika
Svetlana Sarika
Svetlana Silvia
Svetlana Theodosia
Svetlana Ulrika
Svetlana Violante
Svetlana Violetta
Svetlana Viveka

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* I like Isabella in the middle slot, where its Georgian(?) elegance resurfaces and supplants its 2010s trinket-like preciousness.

This message was edited 3/6/2021, 2:31 PM