Re: Russian names
in reply to a message by maire
Alyona --like as a nickname
Annushka --really like as a nickname
Avdotya --like it
Ekaterina --love it
Elizaveta --love it
Dasha --like as a nickname
Elena --love it, but can't use it thanks to my wicked Russian step-grandma
Irina --love it
Ivanka --like it
Karina --like it
Katya --love, especially as a nickname for Ekaterina
Kseniya --like it
Nastasya --prefer Anastasiya or Anastasia
Natalya --love it
Natasha --really like it
Oksana --like it
Svetlana --like it
Tanya --like it as a nickname
Zoya --really like it
Demyen --prefer Demyan
Fyodor --like it
Ilya --love it
Ivan --really like it
Konrad --nms
Kostya --love as a nickname
Lev --like it
Mikhail --really like it (and Misha)
Miloslav --like it
Nikolai --love it (and Kolya)
Radimir --like it
Rodion --like it (and Rodya)
Serezha --prefer as a nickname
Vasily --really like it (and Vasia)
Some of my favorites:
Aglaya
Agata
Aleksandra
Darya
Evdokiya
Evgeniya
Galina
Larisa (Lara)
Lyudmila
Marina
Mariya / Marya (Masha)
Olga (Olya)
Roza
Raisa
Selena
Sofiya / Sofya (Sonya)
Maryana
Nadezhda (Nadya)
Valeriya
Varvara (Varya)
Vasilisa
Vera
Veronika
Viktoriya
Yuliya
Zinaida
Zinoviya
Aleksandr (Sasha)
Aleksey / Aleksei / Alexei
Anatoliy
Andrei / Andrey
Anton
Arkadi / Arkady
Boris (Borya)
Daniil
Dmitriy / Dmitri (Mitya)
Evgeniy / Yevgeniy
Gavriil
Grigoriy / Grigori (Grisha)
Ilari
Innokentiy / Innokenti
Iosif
Isaak
Isay
Kirill
Konstantin
Lavrentiy / Lavrenti
Leonid
Luka
Makariy / Makari
Maksim
Maksimilian
Matvey / Matvei
Nikita
Pankrati
Pavel (Pasha)
Pyotr (Petya)
Samuil
Semyon
Sergey / Sergei
Sevastyan
Stanimir
Stanislav
Timofey / Timofei
Valentin
Vadim
Venyamin / Veniamin
Viktor
Vitaliy / Vitali
Vladimir (Volya)
Vladislav
Yakov (Yasha)
Yaroslav
Yaromir
Yuliy / Yuli
Yulian
Yuri
Annushka --really like as a nickname
Avdotya --like it
Ekaterina --love it
Elizaveta --love it
Dasha --like as a nickname
Elena --love it, but can't use it thanks to my wicked Russian step-grandma
Irina --love it
Ivanka --like it
Karina --like it
Katya --love, especially as a nickname for Ekaterina
Kseniya --like it
Nastasya --prefer Anastasiya or Anastasia
Natalya --love it
Natasha --really like it
Oksana --like it
Svetlana --like it
Tanya --like it as a nickname
Zoya --really like it
Demyen --prefer Demyan
Fyodor --like it
Ilya --love it
Ivan --really like it
Konrad --nms
Kostya --love as a nickname
Lev --like it
Mikhail --really like it (and Misha)
Miloslav --like it
Nikolai --love it (and Kolya)
Radimir --like it
Rodion --like it (and Rodya)
Serezha --prefer as a nickname
Vasily --really like it (and Vasia)
Some of my favorites:
Aglaya
Agata
Aleksandra
Darya
Evdokiya
Evgeniya
Galina
Larisa (Lara)
Lyudmila
Marina
Mariya / Marya (Masha)
Olga (Olya)
Roza
Raisa
Selena
Sofiya / Sofya (Sonya)
Maryana
Nadezhda (Nadya)
Valeriya
Varvara (Varya)
Vasilisa
Vera
Veronika
Viktoriya
Yuliya
Zinaida
Zinoviya
Aleksandr (Sasha)
Aleksey / Aleksei / Alexei
Anatoliy
Andrei / Andrey
Anton
Arkadi / Arkady
Boris (Borya)
Daniil
Dmitriy / Dmitri (Mitya)
Evgeniy / Yevgeniy
Gavriil
Grigoriy / Grigori (Grisha)
Ilari
Innokentiy / Innokenti
Iosif
Isaak
Isay
Kirill
Konstantin
Lavrentiy / Lavrenti
Leonid
Luka
Makariy / Makari
Maksim
Maksimilian
Matvey / Matvei
Nikita
Pankrati
Pavel (Pasha)
Pyotr (Petya)
Samuil
Semyon
Sergey / Sergei
Sevastyan
Stanimir
Stanislav
Timofey / Timofei
Valentin
Vadim
Venyamin / Veniamin
Viktor
Vitaliy / Vitali
Vladimir (Volya)
Vladislav
Yakov (Yasha)
Yaroslav
Yaromir
Yuliy / Yuli
Yulian
Yuri