Dmitri /
Dmitriy and
Nadezhda hands down.
Both are classy and fun to say.
Others:
AlekseiArkadiy (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...)
IlyaMikhail /
Misha NikolaiSasha (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)
TarasTimurYakovYuriy (mostly because that's one hell of a namesake)
Ksenia /
KseniyaLara (but I really don't like
Larisa!!)
NinaSabina (never known one though...)
TaisiyaYelizaveta /
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Zinaida (although the only time I knew it - one of my friends' landlady - everyone acted like it was an outdated name, I found it pretty)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)