AbayantsevmRussian Derived from dialectal Russian абаянец (abayanets) (normal Russian обоянец (oboyanets)) "from Oboyan", a town in Western Russia, itself of unknown meaning.
AbrikosovАбрикосовRussian Means "son of the farmer of apricots" from Russian абрикос (abrikos) meaning "apricot". Abrikosovs were Russian merchant, public figure, philanthropist family.
AgrafonovАграфоновmRussian Possibly from Greek ᾰ̓́γρᾰφον (ắgrăphon), meaning "any sayings of Jesus found in various ancient texts but not in the four Gospels".
AgronRussian From the Russian Jewish last name Agronsky, which is from the given name Aaron
AlekhineАлехинRussian (Gallicized) French transliteration of Alekhin, most prominently borne by Russian-French chess player Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946).
AlliluyevАллилуевRussian Russian surname. The feminine form Alliluyeva was borne by Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901-1932), the second wife of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.
AmelinАмелинRussian, French Russian feminine counterpart is Amelina (Амелинa)
AmelinaАмелинаfRussian Feminine form of Amelin. This was borne by Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina (1986-2023), who died at age 37 from injuries sustained during the Russian attack on Kramatorsk.
ApelsinovАпельсиновmRussian From Russian aпельсин (apel'sin) meaning "orange (fruit)". Probably denoted to someone who worked with oranges or lived by orange trees.
AsimovАзимов, ОзимовRussian A notable bearer was author Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) whose name was derived from Russian озимый хлеб (ozímyj khleb) "winter grain" combined with the patronymic suffix -ov. His family name was originally spelled Азимов (Azimov), but it got anglicized to Asimov with an S instead of Z when the family immigrated to the United States... [more]