Felie's Personal Name List

Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Bulgarian form of Zoe.

Means "morning star" in Bulgarian.

Masculine form of Zora.

Means "dawn, aurora" in the South Slavic languages, as well as Czech and Slovak.

Derived from South Slavic zlato meaning "gold", a derivative of Old Slavic zolto.

Short form of Zinaida.

Feminine form of Živko.

Derived from South Slavic želja meaning "desire", ultimately from Old Slavic želěti.

Derived from South Slavic žar meaning "ember, zeal, fervour".

Medieval Polish diminutive of Żużanna and Polish form of Jeanne.

Russian form of Eugene.

Russian form of Katherine. This name was adopted by the German princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst in 1744 shortly before she married the future Russian emperor Peter III. She later overthrew her husband and ruled as empress, known as Catherine the Great in English.

Derived from the Slavic elements vojĭ "warrior, soldier" and utěxa "solace, comfort, joy". Saint Wojciech (also known by the Czech form of his name Vojtěch or his adopted name Adalbert) was a Bohemian missionary to Hungary, Poland and Prussia, where he was martyred in the 10th century.

Polish form of Viola.

Polish form of Victoria.

Possibly from a Germanic name meaning "a Wend", referring to the Slavic people who inhabited eastern Germany. In Polish legends this was the name of the daughter of King Krak, the legendary founder of Krakow. It was introduced to the English-speaking world by the author Ouida, who used it for the heroine in her novel Wanda (1883).

Derived from Serbian vuk meaning "wolf". This was the name of a 14th-century Serbian ruler.

Short form of Vladimir and other names beginning with the Slavic element volděti (South Slavic vladati) meaning "to rule, to control".

Feminine form of Vladislav.

Russian and Ukrainian form of Vitalis (see Vitale).

Russian form and Modern Greek transcription of Bessarion.

Means "spring" in many Slavic languages. This was the name of a Slavic spirit associated with the springtime. It has been used as a given name only since the 20th century.

Derived from South Slavic vesel meaning "cheerful".

Means "faith" in Russian, though it is sometimes associated with the Latin word verus "true". It has been in general use in the English-speaking world since the late 19th century.

Russian feminine form of Basil 1.

Polish form of Timothy.

Means "fairy" in Hungarian.

Feminine form of Tsvetan.

Father Tomor is the personification of Mount Tomorr, also known as Mount Tomor in Albanian, a mountain range which includes the highest peak in central Albania. Mount Tomorr is considered the home of the gods in central Albanian popular belief. The name itself is derived from Illyrian Tómaros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tómhxes-, "dark".

Polish form of Simon 1.

Diminutive of Stanislava or Anastasiya.

Russian and Ukrainian diminutive of Stanislav.

Polish form of Stanislav. Two kings of Poland have borne this name, as well as a few saints.

Form of Spartacus in several languages.

Russian diminutive of Sophia. This is the name of a character in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace (1869, English translation 1886).

Form of Sonya in various languages.

Derived from the Serbo-Croatian word snežan meaning "snowy".

Russian form of Simon 1.

Croatian, Serbian and Slovene diminutive of Aleksander or Aleksandra.

French and Dutch form of Sasha.

Feminine form of Ruslan.

Derived from the Slavic elements orsti "to grow" and slava "glory".

Russian and Polish form of Roxana.

Probably a Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian form of Herais.

Feminine form of Radko.

Derived from the Proto-Slavic word *pravьda meaning "truth; justice" in many Slavic languages.

Alternate transcription of Russian Прасковья (see Praskovya).

Hungarian form of Prisca, influenced by the Hungarian word piros meaning "red".

Russian form of the Old Norse name Helga. The 10th-century Saint Olga was the wife of Igor I, the ruler of Kievan Rus (a state based around the city of Kyiv). Like her husband she was probably a Varangian, who were Norse people who settled in Eastern Europe beginning in the 9th century. Following Igor's death she ruled as regent for her son Svyatoslav for 18 years. After she was baptized in Constantinople she attempted to convert her subjects to Christianity, though this goal was only achieved by her grandson Vladimir.

Ukrainian form of Xenia.

From the name of a Ukrainian city that sits on the north coast of the Black Sea, which was named after the ancient Greek city of Ὀδησσός (Odessos), of uncertain meaning. This name can also be used as a feminine form of Odysseus.

Russian form of Niketas. This form is also used in Ukrainian and Belarusian alongside the more traditional forms Mykyta and Mikita. A notable bearer was the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971).

Derived from South Slavic neven meaning "marigold".

Masculine form of Nevena.

Short form of Geneva.

Means "Sunday" in Bulgarian.

Variant of Nadya 1 used in Western Europe, as well as an alternate transcription of the Slavic name. It began to be used in France in the 19th century [1]. The name received a boost in popularity from the Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci (1961-) [2].

Alternate transcription of Russian/Bulgarian Надежда (see Nadezhda).

Russian diminutive of Mikhail.

Short form of Miroslav and other names beginning with Mir (often the Slavic element mirŭ meaning "peace, world").

From Serbo-Croatian miran meaning "peaceful, calm".

Short form of Miroslava and other names beginning with Mir (often the Slavic element mirŭ meaning "peace, world").

Polish cognate of Miloš.

Czech and Slovak form of Michael.

Variant transcription of Matvey.

Slovak form of Matthias, used to refer to the apostle chosen to replace Judas Iscariot. Also the Slovene, Croatian and Macedonian form of Matthew, used to refer to the evangelist and apostle also known as Levi.

Slovene and Croatian form of Masha.

Polish form of Malvina.

Means "raspberry" in several Slavic languages.

Diminutive of Małgorzata.

Russian, Belarusian and Macedonian form of Maximus, as well as an alternate transcription of Ukrainian Максим (see Maksym).

Derived from the rare Serbo-Croatian word lijer meaning "lily" (the usual word is ljiljan).

Originally a diminutive of Lech. The name was borne by several medieval dukes of Poland.

Short form of Valeriya.

Russian short form of Larisa. It was introduced to the English-speaking world by a character from Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago (1957) and the subsequent movie adaptation (1965). Between 1965 and 1969 it increased by almost 2,000 percent in the United States, however it is currently much more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Germany. Another famous fictional bearer is Lara Croft, first appearing in video games in 1996 and movies in 2001.

Short form of Alana (English) or Svetlana (Russian). In the English-speaking world it was popularized by actress Lana Turner (1921-1995), who was born Julia Jean Turner.

Polish form of Christopher.

Polish and Slovak form of Cornelius.

Russian form of Cyril.

Russian feminine form of Cyrus.

Polish and Hungarian diminutive of Kunigunde.

Karachay-Balkar form of Khidr.

Polish form of Casimir.

Polish form of Katherine.

Diminutive of Katarzyna.

Polish, Slovak and Slovene form of Karl.

Russian and Hungarian form of Camilla, as well as a Polish and Scandinavian variant. This is also the Hungarian word for the chamomile flower (species Matricaria chamomilla).

Means "viburnum tree" in Bulgarian, Macedonian and Polish.

Polish form of Jasper.

Polish form of Iustina (see Justina).

Diminutive of Juliusz or Julian.

Polish form of Judith.

Polish, Lithuanian and Latvian form of Yolanda.

Polish form of George.

Croatian, Serbian and Slovene form of Agnes. It also may be inspired by Serbo-Croatian janje meaning "lamb".

Feminine form of Jan 1.

Diminutive of Jakov.

Polish form of Hedwig. This was the name of a 14th-century ruling queen of Poland who has recently been canonized as a saint.

Modern form of Jacenty.

Perhaps derived from an old Bulgar name meaning "wolf". This was the name of a 13th-century emperor of Bulgaria. It is possible that this spelling was the result of a 15th-century misreading of his real name Vulo from historical documents.

Means "daisy" in Croatian.

Means "willow tree" in South Slavic.

Means "spark" in South Slavic.

Form of Irene in several languages.

Slovak feminine form of Emmerich.

Bulgarian and Macedonian form of Hilarion.

Means "violet" in Hungarian, ultimately from Latin viola.

Shortened form of Hajnal. The Hungarian poet Mihály Vörösmarty used it in his epic poem Zalán Futása (1825).

Feminine form of Grozdan.

From Lithuanian graži meaning "beautiful". This name was created by Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz for his poem Grażyna (1823).

Derived from South Slavic gora meaning "mountain". It was popularized by the Croatian poet Ivan Goran Kovačić (1913-1943), who got his middle name because of the mountain town where he was born.

From South Slavic gojiti meaning "grow, heal, foster, nurture".

Serbian form of Gabriel.

Created by the Hungarian poet Mihály Vörösmarty in the 19th century. He based it on the name of the legendary mother of the Hungarian people, Enéh, of Turkic origin meaning "young hind" (modern Hungarian ünő).

Polish form of Edith.

Feminine form of Dušan.

From the Old Slavic word *dǫbrava meaning "oak grove".

Czech and Slovak form of Dragomir.

Derived from the Slavic element dorgŭ (South Slavic drag) meaning "precious" combined with mirŭ meaning "peace, world".

Derived from the Slavic element dorgŭ (South Slavic drag) meaning "precious".

Polish, Czech and Slovak form of Dorothea.

Feminine form of Dominic.

Derived from the Slavic elements dobrŭ "good" and slava "glory".

Alternate transcription of Russian Дмитрий (see Dmitriy).

Alternate transcription of Serbian Ђорђе (see Đorđe).

Bulgarian form of Dejan.

From Serbian диван (divan) or Macedonian дивен (diven) meaning "wonderful".

Russian variant of Dmitriy, as well as the Georgian form.

Meaning uncertain, possibly from an old Slavic exclamation expressing joy or sorrow. This was the name of a supposed Slavic war god. His name was the basis for the word davorije, a type of patriotic war song popular in the 19th century [1].

From the Slavic element darŭ meaning "gift", originally a diminutive of names containing that element.

From a Slavic word meaning "morning star, Venus". This name occurs in Slavic folklore as a personification of the morning star. It has sometimes been used in the English-speaking world since the 1970s.

Serbian and Croatian variant of Diana, reflecting the English pronunciation.

Polish form of Caesar.

Derived from Slavic čędo "child" and mirŭ "peace, world".

Derived from the Slavic element borna "protection" combined with mirŭ "peace, world".

From a Bulgar Turkic name, also recorded as Bogoris, perhaps meaning "short" or "wolf" or "snow leopard". It was borne by the 9th-century Boris I of Bulgaria, who converted his realm to Christianity and is thus regarded as a saint in the Orthodox Church. To the north in Kievan Rus it was the name of another saint, a son of Vladimir the Great who was murdered with his brother Gleb in the 11th century. His mother may have been Bulgarian.

Other notable bearers of the name include the Russian emperor Boris Godunov (1552-1605), later the subject of a play of that name by Aleksandr Pushkin, as well as the Russian author Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), the Bulgarian king Boris III (1894-1943), and the Russian president Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007).

Derived from the South Slavic word бисер (biser) meaning "pearl" (ultimately of Arabic origin).

Russian form of Arkadios. This is the name of one of the main characters in Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons (1862).

Russian diminutive of Anna.

Russian and Ukrainian form of Anatolius.

Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian form of Anastasia. This name was borne by the wife of the Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible.

Older Russian and Bulgarian form of Anastasius.

Diminutive of Aleksey.

Originally a Russian diminutive of Yelena. It is now used independently.

Form of Alice used in several languages.

Czech and Slovak form of Alexius.

Alternate transcription of Russian Алексей (see Aleksey).

Short form of Magdalena or Helena. This was the name of a saint, possibly legendary, who was martyred near Brussels in the 7th century.

Russian form of Alexius. This name was borne by a 14th-century Metropolitan of Kiev who is regarded as a saint in the Orthodox Church. It was also the name of a 17th-century tsar of Russia.

Form of Alexandra in several languages.

Russian and Ukrainian form of Athena.

Originally a short form of names beginning with the Old German element adal meaning "noble" (Proto-Germanic *aþalaz). Saint Adela was a 7th-century Frankish princess who founded a monastery at Pfazel in France. This name was also borne by a daughter of William the Conqueror.