Azaliya

Gender: Feminine

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Usages: Soviet, Russian (Rare)

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Variant Transcriptions: Azalia, Azalija

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Meaning: Derived from the Russian noun азалия (azaliya) meaning "azalea" (as in, the plant of the genus Rhododendron), which effectively makes this name the Russian cognate of AZALEA. It was first coined as one of the new names that Soviet parents wanting to reject traditional names used, and has continued to be used occasionally into the present.

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- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F#Russian (in English; this is about the plant)
- https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F (in Russian; this is about the plant)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Soviet_origin (in English)
- http://kurufin.ru/html/Rus_names/rus_ad-am.html#Azalia (in Russian)
- http://imya.com/name/615 (in Russian)
- http://www.kakzovut.ru/names/azaliya.html (in Russian)
- http://analiz-imeni.ru/women/azaliia/znachenie-imja.htm (in Russian)
- see page 46 of "Sowjetrussische Vornamen: Ein Lexikon" written by Herwig Kraus: https://books.google.de/books?id=3tXmBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA46 (in German)
- "Список имён советского происхождения" (List of names of Soviet origin) at https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BA_%D0%B8%D0%BC%D1%91%D0%BD_%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F (in Russian)
- https://ru.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Azaliya/+/ru-0-Rusland (lists only bearers living in Russia)

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(Information from name #209938 originally submitted by user Ambiversion)