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in reply to a message by Cleveland Kent Evans
I've read on a Russian name site that Yesenia has is derived from Arabic Hasan, but I don't know is this info accurate. I guess it became popular because of the Yesenin-association, as you already pointed out. The Mexican film vas popular in the Soviet Union, too.
What I thought is that Yesenia (in Russia) could be also derived from Jasna, Yasen or "yasen'" which is the name for Ash tree in Russian. I don't know how "ya" could turn into "ye", but I read on another name forum that Yesenias get often called Yasya. Might that be because of the origin? (Yevgeny and Yevgeniya's nickname is Zhenya because the name itself came from France, where Yevgeny was Eugene).
Well, my sources are bad and very likely unaccurate. I used mostly baby name forums, where people are not very interested in the etymology.
I found one source that looked respectable:
http://znachenie.ru/znachenie_familii/id/Esenin
There was said that the last name "Yesenin" has its origins in an old name Yesip (which is a form of Osip) - maybe Yesenia has the same origin, too?
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C
http://otvet.mail.ru/question/10891169/
http://www.woman.ru/psycho/medley6/thread/3833554/
http://www.dvddom.ru/details/13445
(aka ToveTer)
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist invents the parachute. (Bernard Shaw)
What I thought is that Yesenia (in Russia) could be also derived from Jasna, Yasen or "yasen'" which is the name for Ash tree in Russian. I don't know how "ya" could turn into "ye", but I read on another name forum that Yesenias get often called Yasya. Might that be because of the origin? (Yevgeny and Yevgeniya's nickname is Zhenya because the name itself came from France, where Yevgeny was Eugene).
Well, my sources are bad and very likely unaccurate. I used mostly baby name forums, where people are not very interested in the etymology.
I found one source that looked respectable:
http://znachenie.ru/znachenie_familii/id/Esenin
There was said that the last name "Yesenin" has its origins in an old name Yesip (which is a form of Osip) - maybe Yesenia has the same origin, too?
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C
http://otvet.mail.ru/question/10891169/
http://www.woman.ru/psycho/medley6/thread/3833554/
http://www.dvddom.ru/details/13445
(aka ToveTer)
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist invents the parachute. (Bernard Shaw)
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