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[soidisantfille.livejournal.com]

If my father's name is Thomas, what is my patronymic (female)? Since it's a biblical name, I assume there is a Russian equivalent.

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[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

Well, then it's either Кристи Томасовна or Кристина Фоминична. I wonder why you might need this, though... :)

[varia109.livejournal.com]

I know a Petya Vol'fgangovich. Now that's an awesome patronymic. Wolfgang.

[solito.livejournal.com]

We all know someone called Vladimir Volfovich :)

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

My friends teacher was called Джеймс (James) Владимирович ;)

[uncle-becher.livejournal.com]

Яков Владимирович would be more consistent :)

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

May be, but this was written in his passport.

[soidisantfille.livejournal.com]

It's just out of idle curiosity that I wanted to know. I was trying to explain how the patronymic worked to my friend and I wondered what mine would be, in theory.

A related question, how often do Russians use their patronymics and in what contexts? I know it's considered formal address. When I was in Russia, we were introduced to our teachers by their patronymics, but they usually just went by their first names in class.

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

It is a formal adress, but it is also a expression of respect.
Nowadays our mass-media tries (try?) to make us do it in a foreign way - without patronymics. And it infuriates me when our today journalists dare call our great writers or artists by their first names only. (Who are they to be so familiar?)

Whether you prefer being adressed to with patronymic or not depends on the traditions of your family - my mom started working when she was 18 and she was always adressed as 'Татьяна Львовна' but her boss who was 50 was adressed by his first name ;).

[gdt.livejournal.com]

it is interesting that patronimic name, when used without first name, is very informal way of addressing, sometimes used among friends: "Ну что, Петрович, выпьем?"