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What is the common Russian names

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Leeloo4_u Frequent Guest Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 42 Location: South Africa	Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 8:37 pm    Post subject: What is the common Russian names Hallo there, Just had a thought of what the most common Russian names are for both Genders, I for one noted that there are many different names derived from Alexander, like Ales, Alexis, Alexey (my personal favourite) and so on. Is there one name that every second boy or girl has?
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Camrade VIP Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 516 Location: Санкт-Петербург	Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 10:52 pm    Post subject: Ivan is very common boy's name, also Sergey is quite popular Boris, Oleg, Gleb, Aleksander, Alexey.... Female's popular names are Anna, Maria, Tatiana, Irina, Elena, Ksenia and so on. But Alexey and Aleksandr are two different names by the way. From Aleksandr you derive Sasha, from Alexey - Liosha (Lёsha), or Alex.
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Leeloo4_u Frequent Guest Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 42 Location: South Africa	Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:21 pm    Post subject: Interesting Thanks, interesting that you can derive Sasha from Aleksandr , and from Alexey - Liosha (L¸sha), or Alex they are complete diffrent sounding name. Do you have names that can be a girl and a boys name?
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Camrade VIP Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 516 Location: Санкт-Петербург	Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:44 pm    Post subject: 2Leeloo4_u kind of for example: Aleaksandr and Aleksandra, Valentin and Valentina. But we don't have absolutely common boys/girls names
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Mogsfan WayToRussified Joined: 03 Nov 2004 Posts: 490	Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 8:07 pm    Post subject: Camrade wrote: 2Leeloo4_u kind of for example: Aleaksandr and Aleksandra, Valentin and Valentina. But we don't have absolutely common boys/girls names I think 'Leeloo' is referring to the unisex names that many Western nations use as the name is interchangeable for males or females. One e.g.: *Sam*: Samuel / Samantha Although, Camrade's e.g. can be used if the name is *Alex*. (Aleksandr /Aleksandra). This page explains it in detail: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/U/Un/Unisex_name.htm This page gives info about Russian names but it's in Russian: http://www.imena.org/
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Leeloo4_u Frequent Guest Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 42 Location: South Africa	Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 8:25 pm    Post subject: interesting Thanks Mogsfan The other site was quite helpful but pity I don't understand the Russian language yet, (but I'll get ther) I have personaly seen the spelling for Alexey in so 3 variations eg Alexei, Alexey and Aleksey any specific reason or will it still be pronounced the same in Russian (or any other language) Here where I live every second girl's name is Jacqueline or Sue-Marie and every second guy is Johan or Stephan
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Mogsfan WayToRussified Joined: 03 Nov 2004 Posts: 490	Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:30 pm    Post subject: Quote: I have personaly seen the spelling for Alexey in so 3 variations eg Alexei, Alexey and Aleksey any specific reason or will it still be pronounced the same in Russian (or any other language) Russians will give you the "official" scoop but this is my personal analysis. The Russian pronounciation and spelling (in cyrillic) is the same but other countries spell it differently for the following reason you can read here: http://www.geocities.com/nemov_galore/profile.html I suspect when Russians spell it in English, they choose by personal preference? But, your best bet is to wait for their answers. P.S. You're welcome.
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Leeloo4_u Frequent Guest Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 42 Location: South Africa	Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:39 pm    Post subject: interesting That I fing interesting it was that the gentleman I met spelled his own name 3 diffrent ways aswell when in English, Id say for us here Alexey is probably the best way that sounds the closes in SA English! Interesting Site http://www.geocities.com/nemov_galore/profile.html forgive me but who is this gentleman?
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Leeloo4_u Frequent Guest Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 42 Location: South Africa	Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:42 pm    Post subject: Sorry Hi there, Sorry my bad I see he's a gymnast! That's probably the things I assosiate the most with Russians: Gymnastics, ballet and weight lifting (and of course Vodka)
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mister_wizzz VIP Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 582	Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Sorry Leeloo4_u wrote: Hi there, Sorry my bad I see he's a gymnast! That's probably the things I assosiate the most with Russians: Gymnastics, ballet and weight lifting (and of course Vodka) Weight lifting associated with Russia ? strange... You should probably have in mind the Soviet times, the best were from Caucasian countries but weren't Russian
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Leeloo4_u Frequent Guest Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 42 Location: South Africa	Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:24 pm    Post subject: Sorry must be, I know the last Olimpics that I was kindu watching was in 1992 (had a little T-shirt and everyting the only olympic sport that I enjoy is swimming (coz SA had 2 guys competing and they brought home medals) and gymnastics (coz I did it when I was realy realy realy small but I defenitly assosiate Gymnastics with Russia and Romania
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init6 WayToRussified Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 363 Location: Москва, Россия	Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:21 am    Post subject: I bet Casey is a real common Russian name, eh? On a serious note, how do you guys think I should spell it in Cyrillic?
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Only Frequent Guest Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Posts: 48	Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:14 pm    Post subject: Phonetically - Кэйси
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Leeloo4_u Frequent Guest Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 42 Location: South Africa	Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:44 am    Post subject: interesting how about Vladimir? I've met a total of 15 Russians in my life of which 3 were call Vladimir, pretty good guess that this name is pretty common?
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Camrade VIP Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 516 Location: Санкт-Петербург	Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 5:55 pm    Post subject: 2Leeloo4_u you're right, Vladimir is quite common one
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