Thread: please suggest a russian name (musculine)

we are from india. but have a special place for russia in our hearts. we have decided to give a russian name for our nephew...

we have been searching for russian names on the net..but that is too confusing...i just want few suggestions from the forum members...


kindly post one russian name (musculine/male) you like, preferably with its meaning. more than one posts are welcome

thanks and regards..

a_medico

http://www.sca.org/heraldry/paul/

so do you want a russian name of slavic origin or just any popular russian name?

Vladimir is my fave name btw

Mishka. It is a dimunitive of Mikhail which means the Lord is God. Depending on how you view the Universe, that could mean practically anything. However, it was probably given at face value. Mishka/Mikhail I am both very fond of.

I think it is great that you are choosing a russian name. I am very fond of this action.

vladimir was my fav even before i posted this msg

mikhail too sounds good....i will ask few more people.

thanks both of u for replies


ps- what is the diminutive of vladimir by the way? i knew but i cant recall right now.

Originally Posted by Floe

so do you want a russian name of slavic origin or just any popular russian name?

any popular russian name

Those are quite popular .. both of slavic and foreign origin
Ivan
Sergey
Vladimir (slavic)
Mikhail
Nikolai
Alexandr
Vyacheslav (slavic)
Alexey
Stanislav (slavic)
Yaroslav (slavic)
Boris (slavic)

Originally Posted by a_medico

ps- what is the diminutive of vladimir by the way? i knew but i cant recall right now.

Vova or Volodya

Originally Posted by Vasilisa

Originally Posted by a_medico

ps- what is the diminutive of vladimir by the way? i knew but i cant recall right now.

Vova or Volodya

thanks vasilisa...and welcome to the board

How about Myatoslav....or Svjatoslav!

Вячеслав. Means "big renown".

Also, it's the name of a very good person I studied in school with many years ago. Name your nephyew in honour of him.

Originally Posted by Zhenya

How about Myatoslav

Virtually non-existant.

...or Svjatoslav!

Extremely rare nowadays.

Time for return!!!

or Mstslav!?

Originally Posted by a_medico

vladimir was my fav even before i posted this msg

mikhail too sounds good....i will ask few more people.

thanks both of u for replies


ps- what is the diminutive of vladimir by the way? i knew but i cant recall right now.

Oh! I forgot how much I like name Sergey too.

A few names of my relatives:

Yuri
Gennady ("g" pronounced as in "get")
Igor
Vladimir
I am Alexey.

I like Vladimir (translates to "power and the world")

but I also like

Viktor

but that isn't Russain is it?

Oh! I forgot how much I like name Sergey too.

Poor chap. How about this horrible combination: Сергей Фокин?

Originally Posted by VendingMachine

Oh! I forgot how much I like name Sergey too.

Poor chap. How about this horrible combination: Сергей Фокин?

It's your suggestion?
I think it'd be much better to use only in Russian. For no associations evoking by that.

Well, Sergey is bad enough (for obvious reasons), but Сергей Фокин is even worse. All I can say is poor berk.