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Russian names are my jam, I love all of them, but I do have those I like a bit more than the others.
I really like the names made up of Slavic elements, such as Vladimir, Miroslav, Radmir, Bogdan, Borislav, Bronislav, Stanislav, Ludmila, Svetlana, Rostislav, etc. I also have a soft spot for the "communist names" made up during the Soviet Union, especially Marlen and Oktyabrina. I find it very interesting how much language can change depending on it's environment, this is why I love these two kinds of names.
Then I have the names I like for their diminutives: Pavel (Pasha), Anatoliy (Tolya, Tolik), Grigoriy (Grisha, Grikha) and of course Aleksandr (Sasha, Shura, Shurik, Sanya, Alya).
Then I also really like the name Innokentiy, but I don't have any reason outside just the ~vibes~
I really like the names made up of Slavic elements, such as Vladimir, Miroslav, Radmir, Bogdan, Borislav, Bronislav, Stanislav, Ludmila, Svetlana, Rostislav, etc. I also have a soft spot for the "communist names" made up during the Soviet Union, especially Marlen and Oktyabrina. I find it very interesting how much language can change depending on it's environment, this is why I love these two kinds of names.
Then I have the names I like for their diminutives: Pavel (Pasha), Anatoliy (Tolya, Tolik), Grigoriy (Grisha, Grikha) and of course Aleksandr (Sasha, Shura, Shurik, Sanya, Alya).
Then I also really like the name Innokentiy, but I don't have any reason outside just the ~vibes~
Dmitri / Dmitriy and Nadezhda hands down.
Both are classy and fun to say.
Others:
Aleksei
Arkadiy (some days I find this cool, other days I hate it, so I can't call it favourite per se)
Artemiy (apparently this gets used, but I've never met someone called it...)
Ilya
Mikhail / Misha
Nikolai
Sasha (not crazy on Aleksandr, but I do like Sasha on a boy... and don't dislike it on a girl. I think Sasha reads more and more feminine, even amongst Russians the number of f Sashas I know -possibly- outnumbers m Sashas , but I don't agree it's feminine. I think it looks cool on a boy and lively on a girl)
Taras
Timur
Yakov
Yuriy (mostly because that's one hell of a namesake)
Ksenia / Kseniya
Lara (but I really don't like Larisa!!)
Nina
Sabina (never known one though...)
Taisiya
Yelizaveta / Yekaterina (not my faves and not exciting, but a lot prettier than Elizabeth and Catherine imho)
Zinaida (although the only time I knew it - one of my friends' landlady - everyone acted like it was an outdated name, I found it pretty)
Zinoviya (rare, never known it used, but cool)
Both are classy and fun to say.
Others:
Aleksei
Arkadiy (some days I find this cool, other days I hate it, so I can't call it favourite per se)
Artemiy (apparently this gets used, but I've never met someone called it...)
Ilya
Mikhail / Misha
Nikolai
Sasha (not crazy on Aleksandr, but I do like Sasha on a boy... and don't dislike it on a girl. I think Sasha reads more and more feminine, even amongst Russians the number of f Sashas I know -possibly- outnumbers m Sashas , but I don't agree it's feminine. I think it looks cool on a boy and lively on a girl)
Taras
Timur
Yakov
Yuriy (mostly because that's one hell of a namesake)
Ksenia / Kseniya
Lara (but I really don't like Larisa!!)
Nina
Sabina (never known one though...)
Taisiya
Yelizaveta / Yekaterina (not my faves and not exciting, but a lot prettier than Elizabeth and Catherine imho)
Zinaida (although the only time I knew it - one of my friends' landlady - everyone acted like it was an outdated name, I found it pretty)
Zinoviya (rare, never known it used, but cool)
Dmitri and Avdotya are the first ones I think of, if I was going to use any. I could also imagine using Andrei, Nikolai, Galina, Tamara, Zoya, Vasilisa.
Arkady, Kirill, Onisim, Oleg, Zinoviy, Olga, Praskovya, Anastasia seem kinda nice.
I like Elmira (and some others used in other languages: Regina, Anna, Antonina, Diana, Irina, Inga, Klara, Albina, Kristina, Konstantin, Adam, Isidor, Viktor, Lazar, Valerian, etc) but don't really perceive it (or those) as Russian.
I like some Russian NNs, examples being Nadya, Dunya, Vika, Sasha, Vanya, Tolya, Yarik.
Arkady, Kirill, Onisim, Oleg, Zinoviy, Olga, Praskovya, Anastasia seem kinda nice.
I like Elmira (and some others used in other languages: Regina, Anna, Antonina, Diana, Irina, Inga, Klara, Albina, Kristina, Konstantin, Adam, Isidor, Viktor, Lazar, Valerian, etc) but don't really perceive it (or those) as Russian.
I like some Russian NNs, examples being Nadya, Dunya, Vika, Sasha, Vanya, Tolya, Yarik.
This message was edited 4/15/2025, 6:14 PM