Tovaryshka_Anya's Personal Name List

Polish diminutive of Zuzanna.

Diminutive of Zuriko, which in turn is a diminutive of Zurab. In other words: this name is a double diminutive of Zurab.

In Georgian literature, Zurikela is the nickname of Zuriko, the central character of the book Granny, Iliko, Illarion, and I (1960) written by Nodar Dumbadze (1928-1984). A film based on the book was released in 1962.

Diminutive of Erzsébet or Zsófia.

Feminine form of Zlatan.

Feminine form of Ziv.

Means "star".

Diminutive of Yevgeniy or Yevgeniya.

Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian form of Jeanne.

Chechen form of Zaynab.

Derived from the Russian noun заря (zarya) meaning "dawn, daybreak". Also compare the related name Zorya.

This name was used by Communist parents who were eager to reject traditional names, possibly in the sense of красная заря (krasnaya zarya) meaning "red dawn" (i.e. the dawn of communism). Also note that Zarya was once the name of a Marxist publication as well as of several Soviet scientifically-inclined projects.

Derived from Persian زر ‎(zar) "gold" combined with the Armenian feminine suffix ուհի ‎(uhi).

Contraction of the Soviet slogan За революцию мира! (Za revolyutsiyu mira!) meaning "For the world revolution!". This name was created by Communist parents who were eager to reject traditional names.

A diminutive of the Rusyn form of Yuriy.

Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian form of George. This name was borne by Yuriy Dolgorukiy, a 12th-century grand prince of Kyiv. The Soviet cosmonaut Yuriy (or Yuri) Gagarin (1934-1968), the first man to travel to space, was another famous bearer of this name.

Means "oak" in Chuvash.

Ukrainian and Belarusian form of Julian.

Means "star" in Uzbek.

Means "rise!" in Turkish.

From Japanese 優 (yu) meaning "excellence, superiority, gentleness" and 子 (ko) meaning "child", as well as other combinations of kanji.

Ukrainian form of Euthymius.

Finnish form of Jurian.

Russian form of Eugene.

Invented name inspired by similar names like Yaretzi and Yaritza.

Russian diminutive of Yakov.

Means "lives, inhabits" in Turkish.

Ukrainian and Russian feminine form of Yaroslav.

Variant of Irina, perhaps influenced by the Slavic element yaru meaning "energetic".

Means "close friend", derived from Persian یاران (yārān).

Invented name, probably inspired by Jarell, Yara 2 and Yael. It can also be newly coined from Hebrew, יַעַראל (Ya'arel), meaning "forest of God".

Ukrainian form of Jacob (or James).

Arabic form of Yoḥanan (see John) appearing in the Quran, as well as the Turkish and Persian form. This name honours John the Baptist, a prophet in Islam.

Diminutive of Włodzimierz.

From Nivkh vyskd meaning "to fight".

Ukrainian form of Vladimir.

Derived from the Old German element folk "people" combined with heri "army".

From the Old Slavic name *Voldiměrŭ, derived from the elements volděti meaning "to rule" and měrŭ meaning "great, famous". The second element has also been associated with mirŭ meaning "peace, world".

This was the name of a 9th-century ruler of Bulgaria. It was also borne by an 11th-century grand prince of Kyiv, Vladimir the Great, who is venerated as a saint because of his efforts to Christianize his realm. Other notable bearers include the revolutionary and first leader of the Soviet state Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), the Russian author Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), and the Russian president and prime minister Vladimir Putin (1952-).

French, Portuguese and Belarusian form of Vitalis (see Vitale).

Means "rifle" in Russian. Probably used by militarist parents.

Form of Victor used in various languages.

Belarusian form of Victor.

Georgian diminutive of Vera 1.

Means "victorious", from Esperanto venki "to conquer", ultimately from Latin vincere.

Diminutive of Ivan.

Invented by author Jonathan Swift for his 1726 poem Cadenus and Vanessa [1]. He arrived at it by rearranging the initial syllables of the first name and surname of Esther Vanhomrigh, his close friend. Vanessa was later used as the name of a genus of butterfly. It was a rare given name until the mid-20th century, at which point it became fairly popular.

Belarusian form of Valeria.

Biblical Hebrew form of Uriel.

From the English word unity, which is ultimately derived from Latin unitas.

Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian form of Juliana.

A diminutive of Ukko, a god in finnish mythology.

Short form of Terhenetär, which was derived from Finnish terhen meaning "mist". In the Finnish epic the Kalevala Terhenetär is a sprite associated with mist and forests.

Russian and Bulgarian form of Tatiana.

Derived from Finnish talvi meaning "winter". This is also the Finnish word for the wintergreen plant (genus Pyrola).

From a Welsh place name meaning "front hill", derived from Welsh tal "front, extremity" and bryn "hill".

Udmurt form of Tatiana.

Means "magic, spell" in Finnish.

Ukrainian form of Svetlana.

Ukrainian form of Salome.

Short form of names containing the Slavic element slava meaning "glory". It is typically masculine in Russia and Belarus, unisex in Ukraine, and feminine the South Slavic countries.

Alternate transcription of Sheetal.

Russian and Ukrainian diminutive of Aleksandr or Aleksandra.

Diminutive of Aleksandr or Aleksandra.

Armenian form of Isaac. This was the name of a 5th-century patriarch of the Armenian Church.

Means "patient, steadfast, enduring" in Arabic, from the root صابر (ṣābara) meaning "to bear, to be patient, to endure".

Vilamovian form of Rozalia.

Meaning unknown. It was used by the Armenian author Muratsan for the main character in his historical play Ruzan (1882).

Old Church Slavic form of Ruth 1.

Taken directly from the country Russia.

Form of Yeruslan used by Aleksandr Pushkin in his poem Ruslan and Ludmila (1820), which was loosely based on Russian and Tatar folktales of Yeruslan Lazarevich.

Diminutive of Rusudan.

Derived from Persian روشن (rowšan) meaning "light, bright, clear".

Yiddish variant of Rivka.

Hungarian form of Kreka.

Means "young gazelle" in Arabic.

Alternate transcription of Arabic رانية (see Raniya).

Means "October" in Russian.

Ukrainian form of Xenia.

Croatian form of Nike.

Turkish and Azerbaijani form of Nazli.

From the name of a 10th-century Armenian saint, Grigor of Narek, who came from the town of Narek (formerly in Armenia, now in eastern Turkey).

Hungarian form of Nadezhda.

A diminutive of Nadzeya.

Belarusian cognate of Nadezhda, being the Belarusian word meaning "hope".

Ukrainian cognate of Nadezhda, being the Ukrainian word meaning "hope".

Ukrainian form of Niketas.

Finnish form of Miriam.

From 敏 (mǐn) meaning "quick, clever, sharp", 民 (mín) meaning "people, citizens", or other Chinese/Sino-Korean characters that are pronounced similarly.

From Russian май (may), meaning "May". It was used by communist parents wanting to reject traditional names as a reference to International Worker's Day on May 1st. The name is written as Maya (Мая) because it is feminine.

Variant of Maarja (Estonian) or Marja (Finnish).

From Japanese 真 (ma) meaning "real, genuine" combined with 理 (ri) meaning "reason, logic" or 里 (ri) meaning "village". Many other combinations of kanji characters can form this name.

Means "angel" in Arabic.

Medieval feminine form of Amabilis. This spelling and Amabel were common during the Middle Ages, though they became rare after the 15th century. It was revived in the 19th century after the publication of C. M. Yonge's 1854 novel The Heir of Redclyffe [1], which featured a character named Mabel (as well as one named Amabel).

Derived from the rare Serbo-Croatian word lijer meaning "lily" (the usual word is ljiljan).

Means "ruby" in Georgian, of Sanskrit origin.

Derived from Kyrgyz кызыл (kızıl) meaning "red" and күл (kül) meaning "ash".

Finnish form of Gustav.

Derived from Kosovo, the name of a partially recognized country in Europe that declared independence from Serbia in 2008. Kosovare Asllani (b. 1989) is a Swedish soccer player who plays for the Swedish national women's soccer team.

Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian form of Claudia.

Rusyn form of Catherine. The name is rarely in use due to Rusyn assimilation with other Slavic cultures.

Norwegian variant of Cato 1. This is the name of the main antagonist in Swedish author Astrid Lindgren's fantasy book 'Mio, min Mio' (1954).

German diminutive of Katherine.

Altai feminine name derived from кара (kara) meaning "black" or кар (kar) meaning "snow".

Means "young woman" in Thai.

From the Ukrainian word for a type of shrub, also called the guelder rose (species Viburnum opulus).

Finnish form of Jörg.

Low German form of George.

Swedish and Norwegian cognate of June.

Variant of Jett.

Croatian, Serbian and Macedonian variant of Ana.

Variant transcription of Iziaslav.

Feminine form of Ivaylo.

Scandinavian form of Ivor.

Ukrainian feminine form of Ivan.

Russian form of Irenaeus.

Ukrainian form of Igor.

Means "life" in Arabic, from حيي (ḥayiya) meaning "to live". In Arabic and Persian it is a feminine name, while in Urdu it is masculine.

Ukrainian form of Galina.

From an archaic Persian word meaning "rose garden", a derivative of گل (gol) meaning "flower, rose".

Means "blue" in Turkish.

Simply from the English word glory, ultimately from Latin gloria.

Russian and Bulgarian feminine form of Galenos (see Galen).

Russian form of Theodore. It was borne by three tsars of Russia. Another notable bearer was Fyodor Dostoyevsky (or Dostoevsky; 1821-1881), the Russian author of such works as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.

From the Old Norse name Finnr, which meant "Sámi, person from Finland".

Welsh form of Flora.

Uzbek form of Firouzeh.

Means "September" in Turkish.

From Turkish er "man, hero, brave" combined with either kan "blood" or han "khan, leader".

Means "golden nation" from Turkic el meaning "people, country, nation" combined with Persian زر (zar) meaning "gold".

Finnish and Estonian form of Eva.

Yakut form of Yevdokiya.

Portmanteau of Donets Basin, an abbreviation of Donets Coal Basin, from Russian Донецкий угольный бассейн (Donetskiy ugolnyy basseyn).

Feminine form of Dazmir. This name was created by Communist parents who were eager to reject traditional names.

Alternate transcription of Hebrew דַּלְיָה (see Dalia 3).

From Tuvan далай (dalay) meaning "sea, ocean" and кыс (kys) meaning "girl, daughter".

From the name of the city in Germany, which is of uncertain meaning.

Derived from the Old Slavic word *bělŭ meaning "white".

From the Turkic military title beg meaning "chieftain, master" and the Persian suffix زاد (zād) meaning "son of".

Anglicized form of Bheur or Bhuer perhaps meaning "cutting, sharp, shrill" in Scottish Gaelic, from Cailleach Bheur "sharp old wife", the name of the Scottish personification of winter, a reference to wintry winds. Alternatively her name could mean "old woman of Beara" from an Irish place name which according to legend derives from the personal name of Princess Beara of Castille, wife of King Eoghan Mór of Munster.

Derived from Nivkh ayzn meaning "gold". Because most Nivkhs adopted Russian names in the 20th century, it is no longer used in the modern-day.

Means "fame, glory" in Sakha.

Bashkir and Tatar form of Aygül.

Alternate transcription of Kyrgyz/Kazakh Айбек (see Aibek).

Means "moon" (also, by extension, "month") in Turkish.

Means "friend" in Persian.

Means "beautiful soul" in Kazakh.

Meaning unknown, possibly related either to Greek ἀρτεμής (artemes) meaning "safe" or ἄρταμος (artamos) meaning "a butcher". Artemis was the Greek goddess of the moon and hunting, the twin of Apollo and the daughter of Zeus and Leto. She was known as Diana to the Romans.

Means "like the sun" in Armenian.

Russian diminutive of Anna.

Often from Sino-Vietnamese 英 (anh) meaning "flower, petal, brave, hero". This name is frequently combined with a middle name to create a compound name; the meaning of Anh can change depending on the Sino-Vietnamese characters underlying the compound.

Older Russian and Bulgarian form of Anastasius.

Form of Anna used in various languages.

Variant transcription of Aliaksandra.

Belarusian form of Helen.

Russian form of Alexius. This name was borne by a 14th-century Metropolitan of Kiev who is regarded as a saint in the Orthodox Church. It was also the name of a 17th-century tsar of Russia.

Diminutive of Aleksandr or Aleksandra.

Russian and Armenian form of Alexander. This name was borne by the Russian writer Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837).

Diminutive of Alexandra.

Belarusian form of Xenia.

Alternate transcription of Ahtem.

Ancient Greek form of Katherine.

Derived from Arabic أدهم‎‎ (ādham) meaning "black, dark".

Means "justice" in Turkish, ultimately from Arabic عدل (ʿadala) meaning "to act justly".

Derived from Arabic أَب‎ (ab) meaning "father" and Persian جان‎ (jan) meaning "soul".