 Kazhakstan |
 Kyrghyzstan |
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 Abkhazia |
 South Ossetia |
 Crimea (Ukraine) |
 Belarus |
Spoken
in: Russia, Kazhakstan, Kyrgisztan, Crimea, and parts of Georgia
(S. Ossetia & Abkhazia) and Moldova (Transnistria & Gagauzia) |
Gagauzia |
 Transnistria |
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Girls'
Names
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Russian Form(s) |
Boys'
Names
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Russian Form(s) |
| Anyessa, Inessa | Aleksandr | ||
| Aleksandra | Andrei | ||
| Alisa | Anton | ||
| Anastassia, Nastasia | Karol | ||
| Khristofor | |||
| Anghela, Anghelina, Anzhelika | Daniil | ||
| Ana, Anya | Doyvid | ||
| Antonina | Denis | ||
| Varvara | Eduard | ||
| Yevgyeny | |||
| Fredek | |||
| Karolina | Gavril | ||
| Yekatarina | Georgiy, Igor, Yuri | ||
| Tsetsiliya | Garalt | ||
| Kristina | Grigory | ||
| Klara | Genrik | ||
| Doroteya | Isaak | ||
| Elizaveta | Yaakov | ||
| Amaliji | Yukhim, Yakhim | ||
| Yesfir | Ivan | ||
| Eva | Iosip, Osip | ||
| Yuliyan | |||
| Yustin? | |||
| Yelena, Olena | Laurentiy, Lavrenti | ||
| Leonid | |||
| Ivana, Zhanna | Lyudvig | ||
| Luka | |||
| Mark | |||
| Yuliya, Uliana | Martyn | ||
| Lavra | Matvei | ||
| Liliya | Mikhail | ||
| Nikolai | |||
| Lusya | Pavel | ||
| Magdalina | Pyotr | ||
| Margarita | Filipp | ||
| Marta | |||
| Mariya, Mara | |||
| Robert | |||
| Natalya, Natasha | Samuil | ||
| Sevastyan | |||
| Pavla, Polina | Semyon | ||
| Rahil | Stefan | ||
| Rozaliya | Fyodor, Todor | ||
| Sofiya, Sonya | Toma, Fomo | ||
| Stepanida | Timofei | ||
| Siusana | Viktor | ||
| Vikenty | |||
| Vilhelm | |||
| Zakhar | |||
Other Russian Names
GIRLS:
Name - Origin, meaning (English form, if applicable)
Albina - from Latin "white"
Alla - unknown
Darya - from Persian "possessing goodness"
Evgeniya - From Greek "noble" (Eugenia)
Galina - Greek, "calm"
Inna - unknown
Irina - Greek, "peace" (Irene)
Klavdiya - Latin, "lame" (Claudia)
Kseniya - Greek, "hospitality" (Xenia)
Larisa - Latin "seagull"
Lidiya - Greek "from Lydia [place name]"
Lyubov - Russian "love"
Lyudmila - Slavic, "favor of the people"
Marina - Latin "of the sea"
Nadezhda - Russian, "hope"
Oksana - Ukrainian form of Kseniya
Olga - from Old Norse "holy; blessed" (Helga)
Raisa - Greek, possibly "relaxed"
Svetlana - Slavic, "light; holy"
Tamara - Hebrew "palm tree"
Tatiyana - Latin, unknown meaning
Valeriya - Latin "to be strong"
Vera - Russian "faith"
Veronika - Greek "victory bringer"
Viktoriya - Latin "victorious"
Zenaida - Greek, derived from the name Zeus
Zhanna - Russian form of the French Jeanne, feminine form of John,
which is from Hebrew meaning "God is gracious"
Zoya - Greek "life" (Zoe)
BOYS:
Name - Origin, meaning (English form, if applicable)
Aleksei -
Greek, "defender" (Alexis)
Anatolii - Greek "Sunrise" (Anatole)
Arkady - Greek "From Arcadia [place name meaning 'bear']
Boris - possibly Slavic "fight"
Demyan - Greek, "to tame" (Damian)
Dmitrii - Greek "of the goddess Demeter" (Demetrius)
Gennadii - Greek, "noble; generous"
Ilya - Hebrew "my god is Yahweh" (Elijah)
Innokentii - Latin "innocent"
Kirill - Greek, "lord" (Cyril)
Konstantin - Latin, "constant" (Constantine)
Leonid - Greek, "lion"
Maksim - Latin "greatest" (Maximus)
Modest - Latin, "moderate, restrained"
Mstislav - Slavic, "vengeance and glory"
Nikita - Greek, "unconquerable"
Oleg - Old Norse, "holy, blessed"
Roman - Latin "from Rome"
Ruslan - unknown
Sergei - possibly from Latin "servant"
Vadim - possibly Slavic, "rule"
Valentin - Latin, "strong, vigourous, healthy"
Valerii - Latin "to be strong" (Valerian)
Vasilii - Greek, "king" (Basil)
Vitalii - Latin, "of life, vital"
Vladimir - Slavic, "to rule with greatness" or "to
rule with peace"
Yaroslav - Slavic, "fierce and glorious"