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Russian name


Eastern Slavic naming customs are the traditional ways of determining a person's name in countries influenced by East Slavic languages, mainly Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and some South Slavic nations, including Bulgaria, Serbia, and Macedonia. They are also featured in the non-Slavic Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan as a result of the expansion of Russia and Russification.

The standard structure of the full name is the following:

This structure is similar to that of Gujaratis and Marathis in India (see Gujarati and Marathi names), but in languages other than Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian, the ordering is not as strict.

As with most cultures, a person has a given name chosen by the parents. First names in East Slavic languages mostly originate from two sources: Orthodox church tradition (which is itself of Greek origin) and native pre-Christian Slavic lexicons.

All first names are single. Doubled first names (as in, e.g., French, like Jean-Luc) are a very rare foreign-influenced instance. Most doubled first names are spelled with a dash (e.g., Mariya-Tereza).


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