Russian names are used in the country of Russia and in Russian-speaking communities throughout the world. See also about Russian names.
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BezdenezhnykhБезденежныхRussian Means "without money", from Russian денежных (denezhnykh) meaning money and prefix без (bez) meaning without. Denoted to a very very poor person.
BezhenarБеженарьRussian Means "refugee". Though this is a Russian last name, it is more common in Ukraine.
BezrodnykhБезродныхRussian Possibly derived from без (bez) "without" and родной (rodnoy) "native".
BezuglyyБезуглыйmRussian From Russian без (bez), meaning "without" and угол (ugol), meaning either "angle, corner" or "coal". The surname can mean "cornerless, angleless" or "coalless, without coal".
BolkonskiyБолконскийmRussian, Literature Bolkonsky is the last name of Princess Marya Bolkonskaya from "War and Peace" by Lev Tolstoy. It is a real last name outside of literature as well.
BorzykhБорзыхRussian Derived from Russian борзый (borzy) meaning "swift, brisk".
BosoyБосойRussian Derived from Russian босой (bosoy) meaning "barefoot". This may have been a nickname for a low-class person.
BotkinБо́ткинRussian This was the surname of Evgeniy Botkin ( 1865 - 1918) who was the Russian court physician. He remained loyal to the family of Tsar Nicholas II Romanov when the revolution occurred and followed them into exile in Siberia... [more]
BrezhnevБрежневmRussian Denoted a person from a village called Brezhnevo. The most notable bearer was Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), a leader of the Soviet Union.
BurdonskyБурдонскийmRussian Burdonsky is Aleksandr Burdonsky's, Iosif Stalin's grandson (son of Vasiliy Stalin), last name. He took his wife's name to avoid negative connotation.
ChekalovЧекаловmRussian Valeriy Chekalov was the head of logistics for the Wagner PMC.
ChekanЧеканUkrainian, Russian A chekan is an old cavalry weapon. Denoted to someone who made or used chekans.
ChekhovЧеховRussian Possibly referred to someone from Czechia, or a derivative of the ancient Russian name Chekh or Chokh, which in turn relates to the verb chikhat "to sneeze"... [more]
ChekovЧеховRussian This is the surname of the fictional Star Trek Character, Pavel Andreievich Chekov.
CherenkovЧеренков, ЧеренковаmRussian Derived from Russian черенок (čerenók) "handle, hilt", denoting a tall, thin person or a maker of such handles. Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904-1990) was a Soviet physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, made in 1934.
ChernoffRussian, Jewish Alternative spelling of Chernov, a patronymic from the byname Chernyj meaning ‘black’, denoting a black-haired or dark-skinned person.
ChernookyЧерноокийRussian Derived from Russian черноокий (chernooky) meaning "black-eyed, having dark brown eyes". This surname has Polish, Ukrainian or Belarusian noble origin.
ChernovЧерновRussian From Russian чёрный (chyorniy) meaning "black".
ChernovaЧерноваRussian Derived from Russian чёрный (chyorniy) meaning "black". Feminine counterpart of Chernov.
DemidovДемидовRussian Means "son of Demid". This was the name of a Russian industrialist family prominent in the 18th and 19th centuries. A bearer of the feminine form Demidova was Anna Stepanovna Demidova (1878-1918), a lady-in-waiting in the service of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna who acquired posthumous fame for being executed alongside her employer in 1918.
DudinДудинRussian Derived from Russian дудка (dudka), which denotes a wind-blown instrument similar to a flute or pipe. It was probably used to denote a musician or shepherd who played the flute or pipe, as well as someone who made pipes... [more]
DudkinДудкинRussian Derived from Russian дудка (dudka) meaning "fife, pipe", referring to a folk instrument played by shepherds. Thus, it was used to denote someone who made pipes or a shepherd who played pipes.
DunayevskyДунаевскийRussian Derived from the Danube, the second-longest river in Europe. Two famous bearers are Soviet film composer and conductor Isaak Dunayevsky (1900-1955), and his son, Russian film composer Maksim Dunayevsky (1945-).
DurkoДуркоRussian, Ukrainian, Belarusian Derived either from Russian дурной (durnoy) or Ukrainian дурний (durnyi) or Belarusian дурны (durny) all meaning "dump, foolish, stupid".
DziubaДзю́баPolish, Russian, Ukrainian Derived from Polish dziub or Ukrainian dzyuba. It is a nickname for a person with pock-marks on his or her face.
FeynmanФейнманRussian, Yiddish Russian and Yiddish form of Feinman. This name was borne by the American theoretical physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988).
FurmanovRussian May be a russification of the German surname Fuhrmann, or may be derived from the surname Furman.
FyodorovtsevФёдоровцевmRussian Means "from Fyodorovsk". Fyodorovsk is the name of many villages in Russia, the most notable of which being Fyodorovsk, Permskiy Kray.
GagarinГагаринRussian A Russian surname derived from the word gagara, meaning loon (a waterbird, genus Gavia). Notable people with the surname include: Gagarin family, a Rurikid princely family.
GanusГанусRussian Possibly derived from Russian анис (anis) referring to the anise (Pimpinella anisum) plant or from the Turkish given name Gainislam itself from Arabic عَيْن (ʿayn) meaning "spring, source" combined with the name of the religion Islam.
GellerYiddish, German, Russian The name may derive from the German word "gellen" (to yell) and mean "one who yells." It may derive from the Yiddish word "gel" (yellow) and mean the "yellow man" or from the Yiddish word "geler," an expression for a redheaded man... [more]