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Russian-Jewish surnames‎ (22 P) Pages in category "Russian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,287 total.
S. Sasha (name) Simeon. Simon (given name) Slava (given name) Stanislav (given name) Stepan (given name) Svetoslav. Sviatoslav.
Some surnames in those languages have been russified since the 19th century: the surname of Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev has a Russian "-yev" suffix, which literally means "of Nazar-bay" (in which "bay" is a Turkic native noble rank: compare Turkish "bey", Uzbek "boy" "bek", and Kyrghyz "bek"). The frequency of such russification ...
Common places used as surnames include Dibra, Laci, Shkodra, Prishtina, Delvina, Koroveshi and Permeti, as well as the famous Frasheri surname of the Frasheri family. Additionally common some names indicate regional origins: Gega/Gegaj (for one of Gheg origin ), Tosku/Toskaj (signifying Tosk origin) and Chami (for Cham origin ).
My Russian passport has my first name + middle name spelled in a Russian manner (+ova ending) + maiden name. My American passport has same first name spelling + Different (Shortened middle name) + my married last name. To link the two passports, I was going to use my marriage certificate, but the first name in the marriage certificate has a one ...
Slavic name suffixes. A Slavic name suffix is a common way of forming patronymics, family names, and pet names in the Slavic languages. Many, if not most, Slavic last names are formed by adding possessive and other suffixes to given names and other words. Most Slavic surnames have suffixes which are found in varying degrees over the different ...
The first elements of Ukrainian surnames are most commonly given names (patronymics and matronymics), place names (toponyms), and professions. Patronymic surnames. From the first name Ivan (John in English), over 100 different surnames can be formed. The most common variations of Ivan in Ukrainian are Ivas, Jan, Vakhno, and Vanko.
The history of Russian given name is usually divided in three stages: pre-Christian, period of pagan names, created by means of Old-East Slavic language.; Christian, foreign Christian names began to replace old pagan names; small proportion of traditional names became canonical;