Re: Wanting Russian names
in reply to a message by Distant_Stars
Double check my spellings because it's been a few years. But these stand out in my mind most. A lot of them are really Greek, but are /were used in Russia:
Galina (nn Galya), Eudoxia / Evdokia (ev-duh-KEE-a), Aglaya (a-GLIE-a), Agafya, Marfa, Valentina, Varvara (var-VAR-a, nn Varya), Zinaida (zeen-ah-EE-da, nn Zinya), Oksana, Anastasia, Alla, Irina (nn Ira, EER-a), Daria, Nina, Natalia (nn Natasha), Lyudmila, Lyubov (nn Lyuba), Sofia (nn Sonya), Ekaterina (nn Katya), Elizaveta (nn Liza, LEE-za), Maria (nn Masha), Olga (nn Olya), Larissa (nn Lara), Inna,
Male:
Sergei, Maksim, Viktor, Nikolai (Nikita, Kolya), Pyotr (Petya), Alexei (Alyosha), Evgeny (Zhenya), Konstantin (Kostya), Grigori (Grisha), Ilya, Dmitri (Mitya), Boris (Borya), Vadim, Vasily, Vladimir (Volodya), Ivan (Vanya), Yakov, Roman, Aleksandr (Sasha), Mikhail (Misha), Timofei, Anatoly (Tolya), Matvei, Pavl' (Pasha), Kiril.
Galina (nn Galya), Eudoxia / Evdokia (ev-duh-KEE-a), Aglaya (a-GLIE-a), Agafya, Marfa, Valentina, Varvara (var-VAR-a, nn Varya), Zinaida (zeen-ah-EE-da, nn Zinya), Oksana, Anastasia, Alla, Irina (nn Ira, EER-a), Daria, Nina, Natalia (nn Natasha), Lyudmila, Lyubov (nn Lyuba), Sofia (nn Sonya), Ekaterina (nn Katya), Elizaveta (nn Liza, LEE-za), Maria (nn Masha), Olga (nn Olya), Larissa (nn Lara), Inna,
Male:
Sergei, Maksim, Viktor, Nikolai (Nikita, Kolya), Pyotr (Petya), Alexei (Alyosha), Evgeny (Zhenya), Konstantin (Kostya), Grigori (Grisha), Ilya, Dmitri (Mitya), Boris (Borya), Vadim, Vasily, Vladimir (Volodya), Ivan (Vanya), Yakov, Roman, Aleksandr (Sasha), Mikhail (Misha), Timofei, Anatoly (Tolya), Matvei, Pavl' (Pasha), Kiril.