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[xswt-cherryx.livejournal.com]

Okay.. I have to pick a name for myself in russian. What kinds of names do you like personally? Any suggestions? BTW I also looked up names on the internet... is Luka really a girls name? Because my cousin (who is a boy) is named Luka. and can Миша be a girls name as well?

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[azulejos.livejournal.com]

Both names are boys names.
Why did you think they are girls'?

[thespinningone.livejournal.com]

same question))

[angstzeit.livejournal.com]

I think Americans have a general feeling that names ending in "a" are feminine. I'm not sure where it comes from, though exposure to Spanish puts that in your head.

[tisoi.livejournal.com]

From my perspective, Misha sounds like a feminine name. As does Sasha.

[thespinningone.livejournal.com]

Luka is a really old-fashioned boys name.
Misha (short for Mikhail) is, as well as Luka, a totally boys name in Russia. though in the States they also call girls this name - i've heard of at least 2 actresses with such a name. but is sounds really strange to a Russian..

as for girls name - well, i like mine)) i'm Galya (Galina). i also like Tanya (Tatiana) and Lena (Yelena)..

[voffk.livejournal.com]

no, no :)

это как в том анекдоте, где чукча обиделся, что русский священник назвал его дурацким именем Иван, а жену красивым Мария и поменялся :)

[oryx_and_crake]

I have to remind that the working language of this communtiy is English.

[nadha.livejournal.com]

Миша is short for Михаил. Михаил = Michael. It is only boy's name in russian. But of course you can be Маша (Мария).
Some popular girl's names: Лена (Елена, Оля (Ольга), Юля (Юлия), Таня (Татьяна), Наташа (Наталья), Аня (Анна), Настя (Анастасия), Люба (Любовь)...
I like Соня most of all. It sounds like sleepy. And full name for Соня is Софья - Sophie in engl. But it is not so popular now.

My own name is Надя, short for Надежда - hope. Maybe you'll like it )

[roseargent.livejournal.com]

My name is Соня. :P Named for my grandmother, who is Polish and named Софья. ^^

In English, though, it is spelled the Scandinavian way, Sonja. My parents just liked it better that way.

[nadyezhda.livejournal.com]

Sofia is becoming very common in the US, actually. And as you can see I love the name nadezhda! :)

[wire-shock.livejournal.com]

Миша is the diminutive form of the name Михаил which is 'Michael' and as such, desperately, unavoidably masculine!
The name Лука, if you do mean this name, is masculine (= English 'Lucas') but barely used these days at all.
Yet I suspect that you might have meant the feminine name Лика (Lika) which I don't like at all, but there are people who do, so you can take a chance!

[dvanoltri.livejournal.com]

I have a friend, girl. Her name is Михалина (Michalina) - it can be shorten as Миша. But it's a pretty rare name.

[russian-bob.livejournal.com]

How about "Мишел" Michelle?
Sure, it's sounds like an american name, not russian, but it's definetely girl's name.

[pink-rain.livejournal.com]

I used Tatyana :P >.>;
But we had to pick off a lame list. Personally I love Alina, Anastasiya, Lia, and Kisa nn;

[pink-rain.livejournal.com]

... Karina and Lena too haha

[watchbot.livejournal.com]

both names are for boys.
As i noticed you liek TATY. Their names are Юля and Лена.
I think Лена is a good name for you.

[branwen.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend gave me the Russian name Ирка (Ира) because he thought it matched my real name best, which is Erin.

[russian-bob.livejournal.com]

I liked name "Рита" (Rita) short of "Маргарита" (Margaret).

But best of all, off course, is "Лена" (Lena, not Leena) short of Елена (Ellen). She was the cause of the Trojan war, and this is also my wife's name. All women with this name are beautiful. :)

By the way, what is your real name? We sure can find something close to it in Russian.

[branwen.livejournal.com]

I know several Lena's, and you're right, they are beautiful.

It seems to me to be an overly common name, though. Actually, there are several Russian names that seem to be very common. Lena, Tanya, Ira...I have met a lot of those. But I also know two guys named Artem, which is supposedly not an overly common name.

But I digress.

[wileyokiley.livejournal.com]

in my first-year russian class, i chose Анна, even though (as i'm also an Erin) Ира probably would have been closer to my real name. i always did feel more like an Анна, though... for whatever reason

[russian-bob.livejournal.com]

When my daughter was 8, I told her that we should probably change her full name "Maria" to something more american and something closer to what we called her in our family "Маша", to Marsha or Marcia.
She was shocked and refused to even talk about that.
Next day she came from school and told us that she discussed this with other girl and they all think that it's "opportunity of the lifetime", that she definitely should take advantage to pick her own name. So she decided that her name will be "Sarah", because all girls liked that... now we were shocked! :)

We did not change her name.

[fiachasorcha.livejournal.com]

mine is Лиза, short for Елизавета or Елизабет depending on which teacher I'm talking to. I'm also a fan of катя аня and the like. I found it's easiest to choose one that sounds somewhat like your real name since if your classes are anything like mine, you will know everyone by their Russian name rather than their real name. It leads to strange situations, like knowing someone for two years and not knowing their real name...

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

Take Маша instead of Миша.

[cooleach.livejournal.com]

My favourite girls` names are Elena (Lena), Evgeniya (Zhenya), Mariya (Masha) and Alexandra (Sasha). =)

Choosing names

[robomarkov.livejournal.com]

My Russian name is Таиша. It is a boys name.

Re: Choosing names

[freedomcry.livejournal.com]

It's not a name at all. :)

[phineus892.livejournal.com]

When I moved to Australia with my family we had to do the reverse of this and come up with English equivalents for our names. My name was easy (Natasha), but my sister is called Женя. Now that was hard to transliterate! She is now known as Jenia (pronounced D-g-enia) but on some documents she appears as Evguenia (Евгения) and I love watching people trying to pronounce that! Funny, funny...!

[phineus892.livejournal.com]

Besides that I like the name Ксения (because it sounds exotic) and Махим (yes, for a girl, like the singer ;), though I'm not sure how well that would go down in Russia).

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

Hmm. Really, Ксения and Максим is not native russian names.
This native names:
Male: Владимир (Вова), Владислав (Влад), Вячеслав(Слава), Станислав(Стас), Ярослав (Ярик).
Female: Вера, Надежда(Надя), Любовь(Люба), Светлана(Света), Инна, Лада, Людмила(Люда).

[oryx_and_crake]

Inna is not a native Russian name
http://pravoslavie.days.ru/Life/life6914.htm