Despite the fact that today many foreign countries are trying to abandon everything Russian, there are still things that politics have bypassed. So, for example, foreigners continue to love the names common in our country, naming their children with them.
It should be noted right away that many of them, although they do not originally have our origin, most often they are still found precisely in the Russian expanses. And now to the names.
So, for example, in France you can find Sash, Natasha and Len. And it is in a diminutive form. In addition, among both boys and girls, Nikit can be found. Although with regards to the latter, it is possible that Besson also contributed with the painting “Her name was Nikita”.
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A couple of years ago, a German magazine conducted a survey among readers about which Russian names, in their opinion, are considered the most beautiful. Alina, Polina, Mila, Daria and Victoria were in the top five for women. List of men’s Maxim, Vadim, Nikita, as well as Alyosha and Kolya (exactly in this form).
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By the way, the most popular Russian names in Germany were Dmitry and Olga.
But the British often call the names Misha and Sasha both boys and girls. By the way, a similar story can be found in the United States. Now the names Cyrus and Lydia are also gaining great popularity in the vastness of the UK.
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In South Korea, you can meet Nastya and Ekaterina. Moreover, the Koreans do not like the last name in the Katya variation because of consonance with the local word, which translates as “fake”. They also like Eugene, along with the abbreviated Zhenya. Most often, they use names ending in “sha”, like Pasha or Dasha.
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After the series Doctor Zhivago appeared on the screens in Latin America, it immediately gained popularity. Therefore, it is not surprising that in Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela one can meet Borisov (in honor of the author of the novel Pasternak), as well as Yuriev, Antonin and Laris (in honor of the main characters). In addition, the names Ivan and Tatyana are popular there.
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Girls in India are very fond of calling Sophia, replacing the first vowel with “y”, as well as Sveta and Tamar. The locals believe that these names are very suitable for their language. However, male names sound very funny, because they are the names of our famous compatriots: Pushkin and Gagarin.
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If we talk about those who were born during the Soviet era, when the country was especially friendly with India, then among the representatives of that generation one could meet Lenin, Stalin, and even Sputnik.
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