Quote Originally Posted by sun_rat
Is it common to just transliterate one's english name into russian? Or should one look for a reasonable facsimile if possible?

One of my russian friends seems to have a little issue with direct transliteration of my name. It is masculine in Russian, but obviously I am not a man...
Of course the solution was simple enough in the case of my name, but I wondered what the general practice is?
I'm just wondering what a name being transliterated in Russian would be a masculine
By the way in the last time in Russian it has a tendency not to transliterate foreign names at all. For instance, in many of scientific articles which I met all names stays written with Latin letters, names of musical bands and performers usually keep of its original spelling as well. Also, names of artists and movie titles often get written now in both Cyrillic and English (or another languige).