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[Opinions] Russian Names
What Russian names do you like?I'm trying to rename some characters.
One is a girl currently named Fedosia, but I'm not entirely feeling it.
Second is her male instructor (currently nameless).Anything appreciated.
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So, so many.Evdokiya / Yevdokiya / Avdotya
Praskovia (see: Praskoviya)
Zvonimira
Xenia / Ksenia / Kseniya / Aksinya
Zlata
Pavlina / Polina
Zoya
Apollinaria (see: Apollinariya)
Zinaida
Kreszentia
Marina (= little Maria)
Agrafena
Oksana
Evpraksiya / Yevpraksiya
Matrona
Zinovia / Zinoviya
Some of these might be from other Slavic languages, not just Russian.
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Fedosia sounds too archaic.I'd use:Girls names popular in the 2000s:
Anna (Anya)
Yekaterina (Katya)
Alexandra(Sasha)
Viktoria (Vika)
Anastasia (Nastya)
Darya (Dasha)
Maria (Masha)
Alyona
Yelizaveta(Liza)
PolinaBoys names popular in the 1980s and 1990s:
Alexandr(Sasha)
Maksim
Alexey
Andrey
Mikhail(Misha)
Dmitry (Dima)
Roman (Roma)

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Alyona (al-YO-nuh)
Ecaterina (YEH-caterina)
Katia (KA-te-ya)
Svetlana
Lada
Viktoria
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One of my sisters is called Mila, I'm pretty sure it is Russian :) (pronounced mee-luh)
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Mikhail
Anatoly
Vitaly 'Vitya'
Viktor
Nikolai 'Koyla'
Dmitri 'Dima'
Andrei
Yasha
Aleksandr 'Sasha'
Evegniy
Kirill
Sergei
PyotrSvetlana 'Sveta'
Oksana
Snezhana
Milena
Zhanna
Yelena
Petra
Katya
Natasha
Elena
Irina
Maria 'Masha'
Kseniya
IvannaI put some of the nicknames that I know assiocated with the names! Most names have a short version, which you can form other nicknames from. Svetlana can became Svetka (although this is a sort of 'mean' nickname if I remember correctly), Sveta, Svetochka, etc. I'm also working on a story with Russian characters so I've trying to learn more about the naming style as well.

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I especially like these:Alexey / Aleksey
Dima
Dimitri
Feodor
Gavriil
Isidor
Nikolai
Anastasia
Isidora
Katerina
Natasha
NatasiaI also recently saw a movie with a female russian character named Nastia. It wasn't a nickname for Anastasia or anything. And the Russian people I know are named Timur, Svetlana, Anna, Viktoria and Anton. The last three are siblings, and V & A are twins.
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