Traditional Russian Baby Names

One of my social media management clients is one of America's leading Russian merchandise websites. I've been working for them for over a year I'm naturally becoming more education about Russian culture. Before then, I hardly even knew where Russia was but I knew that is was very big, can get very cold and they make those cute little nesting dolls*. Well, of course there's a lot more to it than that. The architecture alone is enough to make me want to go jet there right now! Look at that!

* = FIY: Those dolls are call matryoshkas and they can get quite large and extravagant!


The Russians are a group of naturally talented people who excel in folk dance, music, ballet, art and sometimes just being pretty! Um, hello. Have you seen the Russian women? No bad! Not bad at all!

When I do my client's social media posts, I strive to make sure their content is as factual and as authentic as possible because I'm posting as them. I spend a lot of time looking for popular content to share like history articles, fun Russian language videos and funny stories to make their accounts more personable so it doesn't seem like we're just pushing products. Including fun tidbits about Russian culture in their posts has increased their popularity and following greatly! So with all of that being said, in all the articles I've read and videos I've seen, I've come across a lot of Russian names that make me go, "Hm, I kind of like that!"

So if you know me, you should know that when I come across a lot of unique names, I compulsively begin making one of my famous baby naming list!

Russians name their children common European names like David and Sophia, so I'm going to leave those names out. They also have more complicated names that you might not dig or might not even be able to pronounce like Feofilakt and Zhannochka so I took the middle road and rounded up over 100 unique and easy to pronounce Russian names to choose from for your little one.

►► BOYS ◄◄

Akim, Aleks, Aleksy, Alyosha, Anastas, Anatoly, Andrey, Anisim, Anton, Arkadi, Asenios, Artem, Artemy, Artur, Artyom

Benedikt, Bogdan, Boris, Borislav, Borya

Dimitri

Eduard, Emil, Ermolai

Fedor, Fedot, Fedya, Feodor, Feofan, Foma

Gerasim, Grigori, Grisha

Igor, Ilari, Ilia, Illarion, Iosif, Isaak, Isay, Isador, Ivan

Kazimir, Kolya, Konstantin, Kostya, Kusma

Lazar, Leonid, Leonti, Lev, Luka, Lyov

Makariy, Maks, Maksimilian, Marlen, Matvey, Melor, Milan, Miron, Miroslav, Mitya, Motya

Nazar, Nazariy, Nestor, Nika, Nikifor, Nikodim, Nikiolai, Nikon

Oleg, Onisim, Osip

Pankrati, Pasha, Patya, Pavel, Petya, Planton, Plato

Radimir, Renat, Rodion, Rolan, Rostislav, Rudolf, Rurik, Ruslan

Sanya, Sasha, Saveliy, Semyon, Serafim, Sergei (Sergey), Secastian, Shura, Slava, Spartak, Stanislav, Stas, Stepan

Taras, Terentiy, Tikhon, Timur

Vadik, Vadim, Vadimir, Valerian, Vanya, Varlam, Varnava, Vaska, Vasya, Vikenty, Viktor, Vitya, Vlad, Vladilen, Vladimir, Vladislav, Vladlen, Vlas, Vlasi, Volodya, Volya, Vova

Yakim, Yarik, Yaroslav, Yasha, Yefim, Yefrem, Yegor, Yevgeni (Yevgeny), Yuli, Yulian, Yura, Yuri

 Zakhar, Zinoviy, Zenobia, Zinovy

►► GILRS ◄◄

Agata, Aglaya, Agnessa, Akilina, Aksinya, Akulina, Albina, Aleksandra, Aleksandrina, Alisa, Anastasia, Anfisa, Ansa, Antonia, Anushka, Anya, Arina, Arisha, Asya, Avdotya

Boleslava, Bronislava

Darya, Dominika, Dunya, Dunyasha

Elena, Elvira, Eva, Evgnia

Gala, Galina, Glaya

Inga, Inna, Ira, Irina, Isidora, Ivanna

Juliya

Karina, Katenka, Katerina, Katia, Katya, Kira, Klara

Lana, Larisa, Lena, Lera, Lilia, Liza, Ludmila,

Mnaya, Marfa, Marina, Mariya, Marya, Masha, Matrona, Mila, Milana, Milena, Miroslva, Motya

Nadia (Nadya), Natali, Natalia (Natalya), Natasha, Nika, Nikia, Nina, Ninel, Nonna

Oksana, Olga, Oxana

Polina, Praskovya

Rada, Raya, Roksna, Roza, Rozaliya, Rufina

Sabina, Sanya, Sasha, Serafima, Shura, Sofiya, Sonya, Stasya, Sveta, Svetlana

Tamara, Tanya, Tasha, Tatiana, Tonya

Uliana, Ustinya

Valentina, Varya, Vaska, Vera, Veronika, Verysha, Viktoria, Violetta, Yana

Yaroslava, Yelena, Yeva, Yulia, Yuliana, Yustina

Zhanna, Zina, Zinadia, Zoya

Which names are you favorites?

 I personally love Rurik and Zoya!

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