question

[lifelessnbroken.livejournal.com]

my friend joanna was interested in what her name would look like in cyrillic and if there are any nicknames for it as well. after she learned i could write my name in cyrillic she was really interested so i'm wondering if you could help me out.

spacibo!
Lauren

Comments

[nymphatacita.livejournal.com]

Джоанна is how I would spell it.

[giantantattack.livejournal.com]

Ditto.

[nekotjonok.livejournal.com]

Жанна is very close

[shellesie.livejournal.com]

Джоанна in cyrillic, and if she is interested in russian form of her name, it's Жанна or maybe Яна.

[lifelessnbroken.livejournal.com]

thank you so much. you guys are a great help. =)

[dkryuchkov.livejournal.com]

it can be Женя

[lifelessnbroken.livejournal.com]

i thought that was a name for eugene .. or maybe i'm wrong and i'm thinking of a different spelling

[shalapanova.livejournal.com]

You are right, that was a nickname for Eugene.

[giantantattack.livejournal.com]

It is. But it's also the diminutive for Евгения (in English I think Eugenia would be the closest translation).

[aciel.livejournal.com]

Seems like Joanna is a corruption of Jean (which is the feminine of John in English, AFAIK). Could it then be Ивана?

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Иванна is a relatively wide-spread Western Slavic female name (Czech, Slovakian, Western Ukrainian/Gutsul, Luzhiczian etc.,) but not Russian.

[ducking.livejournal.com]

There is no such name in Russian. Although I met a girl named Иванна once, but I guess she was Ukrainian or something.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_teemon_/]

Джоанна, Джоан, Ивана, Яна, Джо.

Also Женя. ;)

[dkryuchkov.livejournal.com]

друг, ты подтвердил мою бредовую мыслю :)