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Russian names consist of three consecutive components, the
name, the patronymic (derived from the name of the father) and
the family (the surname).Russian names are usually of Greek
origin (like Nikolai, Vasilii, Aleksandr, etc) or Latinas as
Valentin, leaving those of Slavic origin in a minor set like:
Vladimir, Svetlana, Ludmila, which combine with Slav
(Sviatoslav, Yaroslav), etc.
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Today, that the majority of the population is Orthodox and as
custom they usually choose the name of the newborn calendar
minus 13 days from the date of the current schedule to fit with
the old calendar (in ecclesiastical use) and then take the name
of the name day.
Russian names
The most common Russian
female names are (with their diminutives): Olga (Olya), Tatyana
(Tanya), Svetlana (Sveta), Elena (Lena), Irina (Ira), Anna
(Anya), Ekaterina (Katya), Maria (Masha), Natalia (Natasha),
Anastasia (Nastia) and Marina.
The most frequent male names are: Sergey
(Seriozha), Alexey (Liosha), Andrey, Alexandr (Sasha), Mikhail
(Misha), Vladimir (Vova, Volodia), Dmitry (Dima), Nikolai
(Kolya) and Yuri (Yura).
Russian surnames
According to a study, from 250 more
typical Russian surnames, they identified the 20 most frequent
surnames in all Russia (according to popularity): Smirnov,
Ivanov, Popov, Kuznetsov, Sokolov, Lebedev, Kozlov,
Morozov, Petrov, Volkov, Soloviov, Novikov, Vasiliev, Zaitsev,
Pavlov, Golubev, Semyonov , Vinogradov, Bogdanov and Vorobiov.
To transform a typical Russian male surname (one that ends with
"-ov", "-ev", "-in"), to a female surname, is added the letter
"a" at the end, and will be Petrova, Kuznetsova, Volkova,
Ivanova, etc.
The word "name" in Russian is "Imya". What's your name? In
Russian is " Kak tvoyó imia?" or " Kak tebia zovut?". The answer
will be: "Menya zovut....". The word "it surname" in Russian is
"family" .
Patronymic Russians
Besides the name and surname, the
Russians have a "patronymic" (Atchestvo), which is a derivation
of the father name and goes after the name. The patronymic take
place by adding the suffix "-ovich" or "-evich" (for men) and
"-ovna" or "-evna" (for women) to the name of the father, but
there are exceptions for other names. For example, if the father
name is Ivan Petrov, the name of her daughter is Olga Ivanovna
Petrova, if the father is Sergey Popov, the son is Vladimir
Sergievich Popov.
When they marry, the majority of Russian women usually take
the surname of the husband (transformed to the female way), and
then this surname happens to children. But it is not compulsory
and some women do not change the name. Also, the husband can
take his wife's surname; the law is absolutely equal in these
cases (although this is done in very few cases). Children can
have any name according to the wishes of their parents, but it
is usually the father’s name. When a lady divorce, she can leave
the surname of the husband or return to maiden name. If she
marries again, she can change the name again, and so on. In
fact, by law, any Russian person has the right to change the
name and surname to anyone at any time, if they do not like it
for some reason.
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