Top 20 Russian Names

[wuvweezerandwookiees]

I have a book character named Anastasia but she goes by Stasia. I say Anastasia the same way that you do, but for some reason, when it's shortened to Stasia, I say it Stosha instead of Staysia.

[21BBmaster]

my name is Dimitri

[HannahRenee98]

Wa bout ivan lady? Ukno from like hetalia?

[OurTaintedInnocence]

@ArianaMichelleA the name Anastasia can be pronounced many ways. My name is Anastasia, and it's pronounced as, 'Ah-Nah-Stuh-See-Yuh'

[peachrocker1]

what the fuck is wrong with your voice?

[pappuscientist]

where's natasa?

[shortythuqqin]

hley im russian too and my name is vladmir

[XxZodiacGamingxX]

Funny all the russian guy names have to sound like from war or evil awesome

[Indoom11782]

You're crazy! Rurik is the prince of all the Russian princes!

[iloverebeccachambers]

Kasimir isnt russian name. I think it is polish. Rurik isnt russian name its svandianvian i think.

[LoveAlwaysVeronica]

Natalia is from CSI: Miami (: And there's a Tatiana in the book I talked about in my last comment and she was okay.. but she was old, so it sounds like an old lady name.

[LoveAlwaysVeronica]

Quite a few of these names are from Vampire Academy.

I know that there's a Victor in it and I HATED him..so..that ruined my opinion. There's also a Viktor in Harry Potter and I don't much care for him.

There's a Dimitri in VA and I LOVE his character. Because of him Dimitri is in my top 3 names.

I'm pretty sure there's a Mikhail in there too. There was a Nikolai..I didn't care for his character too much.

My old Russian ballet's teacher's name is Lillia.

I know a Karina. I don't like her.

[ArianaMichelleA]

I don't want to upset you, but I've been watching some of you videos and you keep say Anastasia wrong. It was meant to be pronounced An-na-zta-zia. With a z not s sound.

[AnastasiaRuby]

@ArianaMichelleA I'm saying it the way it's generally pronounced where I live.

[LoveAlwaysVeronica]

@ArianaMichelleA In America it's said the way Steph says it. I can also be pronounced Anna-staz-iah

[russianbarbiemafia]

my fav is Milena bcuz its my name :) and Dmitri bcuz its my brothers name...also the name Aleksei which wasnt on ur list but should be...thats my sons name :)

[dotJst]

Nikolai wants his vodka know !

[Iamshandaro]

i looooove the name milena

[artempdx]

katia is my faverit becaus it is my name mihail is my 2 beacuse it is my uncles name my 3 is nadya becuse it is my grandmas sisters name

[missmuggledetector]

Well, my name is Natalia (we spell it that way) and my mom gave it to me because she loves Russian names, and I was born in December, a couple weeks before Christmas. And no, we're not Russian hehe.

[nickvalmont1]

I am glad to see the name rurik here. i know this video is quite old, but you should have had the name Ivan on it though.

[rcpw3]

Svetlana is the prettiest Russian girls name

[Gynger64]

@AngelRossia what about Katya?

[Gynger64]

What about Alanna? That's my favorite spelling but you can also spell it Alannah, Alana, Alanah.

[iloverebeccachambers]

@Gynger64 Not russian name. Maybe north caucasian.

[SovietBird]

My names Russian :DD Nikolai.

[BlakePaws1]

BRITISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111

[TheRealDriftClan]

i knew a russian named Aleksandr Goncharov

[AngelRossia]

Well, I'm Russian... Kazimir is actually a Polish name, Rurik is not popular nowadays, Milena is quite rare as well (it is more Bulgarian than Russian), Luka is used more in Ukraine than in Russia (in Russia it sounds a bit strange)...

The most frequently used men names are: Alexandre, Sergey, Andrei, Dimitri, Pavel, Ivan, Artyom, Vyacheslav (Slava), Youri, Nikita, Oleg, Igor, Eugeni....

Very popular girls names are Olga, Elena, Svetlana, Irina, Tatyana, Anastasia, Marina, Yulia, Natalia..

[oHaiinexD]

@lelandac DJrorok was that guy who got banned right? for posting like all free games. To bad i never got a chance to see his channel :/

[ROTFT2]

The name of males number #3!!! but the one thing I do love Russian history and the language too, even Russian is the number one hardest language!!! But one last thing name whole name is in Spanish, I just telling you mine first name. Antonio, in English is Anthony, but a nickname is Tony!

[michaelsdhfsj]

I am artyom!! :)

[Vuvenz]

Where the hell is the name Boris?

[wuvweezerandwookiees]

Every time i see Viktor spelt with a "k" i think of Viktor Krum from Harry Potter lol and my cousin's name is Malayna :) i have been curious as to what it means and have never found it thanks! My uncle actually got the name from when he was younger and he thought Mulan's name was Malayna for some reason and he and my aunt thought it was pretty (after finding out that wasn't the character's name) and decided to name her that. We have some strange name back-stories in my family lol

[Polevaultnerd08]

omg thanks for this... !!!

[pavilionhc]

I'm from Russia, but I don't know names such as Kazimir and Rurik. Rurik it's surname of Russian king.

[cali290501]

I like the Russian name Mischa

[xjets2211x]

Best russian name kazimir reznov

[xjets2211x]

Best russian name is litzca ptrenkov

[1996dascha]

The best russian name is Dasha :D:D:D

[juliaostapa]

Julia Should have been on that list and Dasha Russian---Darya English both are girls then Eugen English---- Zhena russian

[JustJoe94]

Nah the Most name i like is Seroga (Sergai) and Dima (Dimitri) Ivan (Vania) Andrey and Sasha (Alexandar) ,,, Girls Anya , Natalya Tatyana And Lisa ..

[MICHINATOR1]

my moms name is Katya (spelled katia) and everyone has such a hard time pronouncing it i dont get it. its pretty easy lol i love love love anastacia btw:)

[TheCocohotmoco]

is Ivan a Russian Name By Any Chance

[bluebear191]

@TheCocohotmoco Yes Ivan is A russian name

[TheCocohotmoco]

@bluebear191 sick

thats my future babys nama haha

[JustJoe94]

@TheCocohotmoco yea it is

[jmweber1981]

tatiana is is my faverite girls name. thank you for dong this list i really liked it.

[jalyn2013]

arvinya needs to be on the list it is the femail name for animius and it has an unknown meaning

[TheRickyLevi]

I'd say I like Svetlana, I don't know what it exactly means, but it has something to do with Sun, maybe Sunlight? Sunshine? anyway, I like Svetlana

[yuand1000]

@TheRickyLevi svetlana means light

[kanyaamakan]

you can obviously see she's a lovely lady

[EvilFaceXD]

Vlad? i have a boy in my skool name Vlad-daslov (idk how to spell)also hes russian :D

[naiduchis89]

can u do me a favor??? can u tell me what "naida'' means....and where does it come from.....

[pclegopivot]

my name is nikolai lol

[nawas1993]

what do you think about Nawras, its arabic and means Coastbird, and its unisex!?!?

[Snowchild]

I'm going to name my future son Konstantin <3

[thenaturalkatarina]

all the names with the 'Y'

(anya, natalya etc.)

should be 'J'

just saying..

[Afghanzeba]

Sasha both girl and boy name

[KirstenBlanz]

You just helped me find my future daughters name! Milena <3

[mgmsz]

you are realy charmed !

nice to see Jacklien

[RedOuija]

Romanovitchkystonkowskavichiro­v. My favorite

[Charl95X]

Aleksandr <3

[jjordan89481]

I can understand why they would name their sons kazimir. Aren't all boys wild disruptive monsters when they are kids? I was during kindergarden. I think it is a form of good humor.

[rosieXX4]

Nikolai is sooo cute!! Great video!!

[GaarapunKx3]

well, i think nikolai is very cute, and I LOVE russian names, particulary boys names cause they sound so strong and powerful. btw, I like Aleksei for boy name i think it sounds really cute

[GaarapunKx3]

well, i think nikolai is very cute, and I LOVE russian names, particulary boys names cause they sound so strong and powerful.

[diecasterofthespirit]

in soviet russia name get you!

[raychamp01]

i like the fact that out of all the teen/kids on the net that are making jokes about other ethnical names, you however have presented them in a proper manner instead of insulting or digrading them. so i thank you for that.

[ramonrockchamp]

i like the fact that out of all the teen/kids on the net that are making jokes about other ethnical names, you however have presented them in a proper manner instead of insulting or digrading them

[truefaith21]

And I'd like to call my daughter Vasilisa or Alisa. And for my son I'd like to choose Timofey or Danila.

But we have no second names 'cause we have father's names! It will depend greatly!

[truefaith21]

Rurik is a family name, actually...

My father's name is Leonid (son of a lion); short form is Lyonya.

Mother's name is Irina (peaceful); short form is Ira.

Grandparents': Tatyana (mistress); short form is Tanya + Valeryi (healthy); short form is Valera

Olga (lightful); short form is Olya + Juryi (son of soil); short form is Jura

[DancingInDreamWorld]

Anastasia! YEEEEES! :D

[KatherineStar071]

um mikhail is basiclly michael in english im russian i know

[Pujardoff1]

You're a sweetie, that's true

[Pujardoff1]

Kazimir is a polish name

Milena is not russian name too

[truefaith21]

@Pujardoff1

Karina as well)

[BOOMtargetdown]

the best russian name is : Reznov

[truefaith21]

@BOOMtargetdown  it's not a name

[Nalauko92]

@BOOMtargetdown I dont want to affront some one. But the name " Reznov " reminds me of " Rotzen" which is german for " to snot ":-)

[MrNikobelic666]

where is russian name for women NATASA!

[Nalauko92]

Haha, my name is Nadja altough I am not russian^^

and written with a j :-)

[TTok33]

@Nalauko92 Nadia or Nadja (where "ja" = German Ja) is short for Nadezhda (hope).

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

@Nalauko92

Nadia/Nadja/Nadya can be considered Arabic/Persian names, too. Also: one unusual instance of Nadya as non-Russian applies to Octomom, whose real name is Natalie Suleman.

[Nalauko92]

@ClassicTVMan1981X I know that my name is also used in Persia and Arabia, but as far as I can remember it means "Morning dew" and has nothing common with the russian version, although they sound the same:-)

By the way: Whats Octomom?

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

@Nalauko92

Nadya Suleman aka "Octomom" had gained notoriety in January 2009 for giving birth to eight children at the same time.

[tommey7]

sonja

sonia

sonya



[truefaith21]

@tommey7 a short form of Sophia

[tommey7]

sonja

[chrisalain]

Melena is poop.. look it up

[witheverythingiam]

My favourite Russian name is Lara. Quite popular here in Australia making the top 100 for quite a few years now. In Russian is means "From Larisa" or "famous". It also means "happy/cheerful" in Greek, and "The Smile" in Spanish. :)

Our daughters name is Lara, and her nickname is "LaLa" which we later found was the Hawaiian version of Lara.

[EthyTheSimsLover123]

Katojenah, should have been number 1 :) x VERY russian name <3 Many ways to spell it

Khattogenha

Katojenah

Catogenah, and so on :L x <3

[truefaith21]

@EthyTheSimsLover123 are you sure that it's a russian name?

[FilmingforPonceinlet]

Mionchinskaiailodanovicikhailo­veieilkovichisostovozheikaoroz­ovahknoagnovskaksimov EQUALS MORFIS THEY SHORTENED IT ON ELLIS ISLAND NO LIE

[NatOrlyYea]

i'm russian an i have never met a neither a Kazimir, nor Rurik, nor Luka. the rest is so typically russian (my name was on the girls list too :P)

[Sirenraid]

I'm a writer and many of your male name choices are names for my beloved characters. Excellent choices. I particularly love the name Konstantin. It happens to be one of my favorite character names as well. The shorted name for it is Kostya.

[libra729]

I love Anastasia and Tatiana!!!

(I also got the thought: TheOTMAAOfficial = The Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, Alexei Official = Romanov kids, lol)

[LongLiveTheUSSR]

fuck ur smokin hot

[TheHarlequinade]

I have two Russian friends and their names are so pretty. One is called Tatyana (though hers is spelt with a Y, not an I) and her younger sister is called Anya-Mariya, though the kids in her class call her Anna-Maria because it's so much easier for them. The other friend is called Ksenia. It's such a great name, but it's horrible for people to spell because the K has such a short sound a lot of people barely hear it! I love Russian names, especially for girls. Katya is probably my favorite!

[Altare216]

Kazimir: To destroy Peace. Typical mindset of Russian name LOL

[Russianitro]

@Altare216 Kazimir this name designates opposite: the world announcement. This extremely-rare name at russian. About aggressive-military policy of russians, think what quantity Russia in history BEGAN (an attack on other countries) wars, and what quantity of wars there began other "european"(Where enters also USA) countries of world.

[Russianitro]

Russian surnames besides terminations "ov" as have the terminations and "iy" (ий), i don't speak about surnames (words) of nouns. It is necessary to know that some mongoloid people of Russia take to themselves as russian names, surnames and patronymics. Russia consists not only of russian people, but in majority of 80 % is russians.

[Russianitro]

And russians don't carry a surname terminating on: "ko"(ко), "chuk"(чук) and "ich"(ич). "ko" and "chuk" is ukrainian surnames. "ich" is as far as i know (according to many people) belarus or jewish (born in USSR) surnames. Termination "ich" at russians is present only at a patronymic. But, should understand that patronymic is given to children from the father, and marriages can consist between people of different nationalities. Thus, russian (half-russian) can carry and not russian surnames.

[Russianitro]

I have forgotten russian surnames as terminate on "in"/ин. Only it is less extended, than the terminations "ov". Example: Gagarin, Karamzin, Pelevin. Example ukrainian surnames: Belenko, Kiriyenko. Example jewish surnames from USSR: Kaganovich, Yakubovich

[12ewatki]

Dimitri and Anastasia <3

[allnewwings]

One of my friends is Russian and her name is Victoria, but every one calls her Vika. I just love her name, she totally saved the name Victoria for me because i would always think of Vicky from the Fairly Odd Parents! LOL

[Russianitro]

Alexander: R - Sasha, T - Sashok Andrey: R - Andrey \ U - Andrey Anton: R - Anton, U - Anton Dmitry: R - Dima, U - Diman Evgenie: R - Jgenia, U - Jgeniok Gennady: R - Gena, U - Genka Igor: R - Igor, U - Igoriok Ivan: R - Vania, U - Vaniok Jury: R - Jury, U - Jurik Konstantin/Nikolay: R - Kolia, U - Kostik Maxim: R - Max, U - Max Michail: R - Misha, U - Mishok Nikita: R - Nikita, U - Nikitos Oleg: R - Oleg, U - Oleg Roman: R - Roma, U - Roman

[Russianitro]

Sergey: R - Sergey, U - Serioga

Stanislav: R - Stas, U - Stas

Vyacheslav: R - Slava, U - Slavik

Victor: R - Vitia, U - Vitiok

Vladimir: R - Volodia, Vova, U - Vovchik

I - To some, names to prefix of a word termination increases: "ka". For example: Vanka (from Ivan).

T - To some, names to prefix of word termination increases: "echka". For example: Vanechka (from Ivan), Sashechka, Jgenichka. To other names, to prefix of a word termination increases: "usha". For example: Andrusha, Antosha

[Russianitro]

Top 25 most frequent russian surnames (they are distributed in places): 1. Ivanov 2. Smirnov 3. Kuznetsov 4. Popov 5. Vasiliev 6. Petrov 7. Sokolov 8. Mikhailov 9. Novikov 10. Fedorov

[Russianitro]

@Russianitro 11. Morozov 12. Volkov 13. Alekseiev 14. Lebedev 15. Semenov 16. Egorov 17. Pavlov 18. Kozlov 19. Stepanov 20. Nikolaev 21. Orlov 22. Andreiev 23. Makarov 24. Nikitin 25. Zakharov These surnames are actual for both male and female russians. To female surnames, to word termination one letter increases: "a". For example man's Semenov, female - Semenova.

[Russianitro]

Names which are carried by russians, have changes, at the use of these names:

- reductions

- idle time (used in the children's and youth environment)

- used in youth environment,

- tender.

For description of each change of a name, I will reduce definitions: reductions - r., idle time - i, used in youth environment - u., tender - t.

[Russianitro]

youtube doesn't pass my messages on this theme then I will tell about the most popular russian surnames

[Russianitro]

female reductions: Aliona - Aliona, Alla - Alia, Anastasia - Nastia, Darya - Dasha, Ekaterina - Katia, Elena - Lena, Evgenia - Jgenia, Irina - Ira, Ksenia - Ksiusha, Lyudmila - Liuda, Margarita - Rita and Margo, Marina/Maria - Masha, Nadejda - Nadia, Natalia - Natasha, Olga - Olia, Svetlana - Sveta, Tatyana - Tania, Julia (Yulia) - Yulia, Vera - Vera, Victoria - Vika, Yana - Yana

[Russianitro]

Most popular female's names which are carried by russians:

Most popular: Екатерина/Ekaterina, Елена/Elena, Marina, Наталия/Natalia, Ольга/Olga, Светлана/Svetlana, Татьяна/Tatyana, Юлия/Julia

Extended: Алла/Alla, Анастасия/Anastas, Александра/Alexandera, Анна/Anna, Вера/Vera, Виктория/Victoria, Дарья/Darya, Евгения/Evgenia, Ирина/Irina, Ксения/Ksenia, Людмила/Lyudmila, Надежда/Nadejda, Оксана/Oksana, Полина/Polina

[Russianitro]

I have still forgotten three female extended a names: Алёна/Aliona, Маргарита/Margarita, Яна/Yana

[truefaith21]

@Russianitro

The most popular girl's names: Anastasia (which is the most popular for last 10 years), Maria, Darya, Anna, Elizaveta, Sophia and Aleksandra.

The most popular boy's names: Aleksander, Ivan, Maksim, Dmitryi, Artem, Egor, Nikita, Andrey

[Russianitro]

Most popular man's names which are carried by russians: Александр/Alexander (№1 on popularity), Дмитрий /Dmitry (I think that №2 on popularity), Андрей/Andrey (one of most widespread), Сергей/Sergey, Евгений/Evgenie, Иван/Ivan, Николай/Nikolay, Вячеслав/Vyacheslav, Константин/Konstantin, Игорь/Igor, Георгий/George, Геннадий/Gennady, Максим/Maxim, Олег/Oleg, Павел/Pavel, Никита/Nikita, Роман/Roman, Станислав/Stanislav, Михаил/Michael, Владимир/Vladimir, Антон/Anton, Виктор/Victor, Юрий/Jury

[CarBonkers]

I'm really sorry, but you sound like Pam Dawson, or Babe Bennet in Mr. deeds. No bad thing...

[purplemystigirl]

viktor krum from harry potter!!!!!!!!

[jubejubexox]

natasha

[Stargirl13445]

My name is Russian! It's Zhenya but in America I go by Jenna, because it's easier.

[tashaleax]

i love Luka its my cousins name.

and my name is Natasha it means

princess of chrismas day, i think it

should of been on your list as its russian too :)

i also love anastasia (i was going to be called it) :)

xxx

[Carmalita126]

My name is Anya, Though now we are in Canada so people just call me Anna. Another name my mom calls me is Anuta.

[casozzy]

why is my name no 7, and in my country we spell it aleksandAr (with a), can you names for serbia, i live there

[BestFriends4Eva895]

DIMITRI <3 <3 OMG DIMITRI BELIKOV !!



[mairs20]

Rurik reminds me of my problem solving teacher Mr. Roehrich (ror-ick) which isnt so appealling in my opinion LOL!! hes my math teacher next year :( one more con to living in a tiny town!!!

[BlueBonbonBerry]

Nikolai is super popular here in Germany

[mairs20]

my mom's name is Lara which is russian, pronounced (Larr-uh) i really like the english version which is Larissa :)

[ZVS379]

you shouldve had Milenka instead of Milena, its more russian

[truefaith21]

@ZVS379

Milenka is not russian at all! It's much more from Poland...

[ZVS379]

@truefaith21 orly? milenka rhymes with kalinka which is russian so itd be more russian than polish

[truefaith21]

@ZVS379 Kalinka - malinka -)))

Kalinka is snowball tree and Malinka is raspberry

These are not names at all!)

[ZVS379]

@truefaith21 suck-a my piss-a

[truefaith21]

@ZVS379 ahahaha!

lick-a my pussy-a

[Dinster1002]

You forgot Svetlana

one of the most famous russian names ever!

[truefaith21]

@Dinster1002

it's not popular, actually

[AustinTheSk8teKing]

Nikolai is a guy in call of duty world at war its nice to know what it means and Kazimir

[1nEGOR]

yes, my favorite boy-name (russian) is Egor ,(cause it's my name ;)

[RhiaRoxx13]

I love all of the names on this list but my favorites are Luka, Nikolai, Katya, Anya, and Anastasia.

I absolutely love the name Elizaveta. It's one of my favorite baby names.

[firetrucksnfishcakes]

My favorite name that is Russian boy name is:

Gennadi! I think it's a cute name for a boy in Russia but you might not want to use it in the U.S. or Canada. But cute though!

[fjolinaa]

my favorite russian boy name is nikolai for sure, my little brothers name is isaac nikolai btw, and a name that should have been on the list is the russian girls name Yulia , its so lovely because its pronaunced with a soft Y , i really like it :)

[Silvija96]

First time I heard Rurik, Luka, Milena although I live near Russia xD

Oh well my few favorites is Polina, Marina and Irina, (all ends a) of Russian names.

[teamjacobcrystal]

wat about sergey

[veramaksymiuk]

cool, my name's russian, it means faith:)

[truefaith21]

@veramaksymiuk

my name's Vera too -)

[ketsupop]

i like the name constantine..its very masculine..

[ketsupop]

i like the name constantine..its very masculine..

[moscowmasha]

Mikhail is pronounced "Mi-ha-il" - I don't know why they put the 'k' in there.

Alas, the English spellings utilizing 'y' don't do a very good job representing the sound one would use in Russian, which is much softer and closer to the 'i' sound.

In case you were curious, Anastasia is pronounced with an 's' sound rather than a 'zh' sound in the second part, and the initial 'a' and the 'a' after the 't' is pronounced like the 'a's in 'mama'.

[kviggy11]

hey my name is Konstantin and my sister's name is Anastasiya. thanks for saying it makes good siblings' names:)

[zunetrex1]

anastasia has a nickname which is nastya:)) also for tatiana ( which is my name:) the nickname is tanya:)

[joejonasgirl1995]

I like Roman and my Brazilian cousin is naming there child Roman Maddox and for a girl I like Karina

[thumperlover123]

My favorite name was Nadya or Anastasia, and I also like Sasha :)

[Nine00]

Isn't Konstantin spelt with a C Greek?? I knew somebody called that and his dad was Greek.

[rusicesk8ingirl]

thats not the way you say names in russian.

[AnastasiaRuby]

Sorry, this was by request and I don't speak Russian. I'm saying the names how they would be pronounced where I live.

[TTok33]

@AnastasiaRuby

OMG you cut me with a dull knife! Please don't make Anastasia sound like Anesthesia. It's A-nah-stah-see(!)-ya

I'll post a video to help you. Names you got 99% close are Tatiana, Marina, Dmitry and Nikolai. The problem originates in the way we Russians spell our names in English: instead of choosing the "phonetic" spelling we choose the one that looks more close to Cyrillic characters, i.e. Елена=Elena => Yelena.

PS nice view. Vancouver?

PPS Rurik is a viking name

[sweetrussian6]

@AnastasiaRuby

ok I agree, but dont say that thats how your supposed to pronounce it in russian, cause its not.

[cbthrockarefaces]

@rusicesk8ingirl i know

[GuitarAddict4]

dimitri=amazing

[abrightlove]

my favourite was Dimitri ;)

[muddy8D]

Tamara is my favorite girl name :)

[szofocska]

you're Russian pronounciation is pretty good! My fav Russian name is not on the list: Irina.

[kathia82]

my favorite is Katya hahahaha it's my name :) but spelled differently...

[manateee97]

my friend matt was adopted from russia n his birth name is Urie n i love that name and he hates when i talk about it

[CloakedEmotions]

I'm very young (only 14), but if a day comes where I have 2 twin boys, I would love to name them Lorenzo and Ienzo :)

[SirRafacioni]

you missed NIKO, like niko bellic