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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]

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 :)

[thespinningone.livejournal.com]

same question))

[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 )

[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.

[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

[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.

[nadha.livejournal.com]

Киса? Киса Воробьянинов? :-)

[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.

[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.

[branwen.livejournal.com]

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

[tisoi.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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.

[xswt-cherryx.livejournal.com]

probably its a thing about spanish french and technically russian decides the gender female with the ending a.

[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

[xswt-cherryx.livejournal.com]

i like my name... it is lauren. but i don't like laura or lara, even though i do like lauren.

[khathi.livejournal.com]

Nope. In Russian "-a/-ya"-ending nouns can be both masculine and feminine, and fall under first declension. They couldn't be neuter -- neuter nouns should end in "o" or "e".

[khathi.livejournal.com]

Sasha is actually a gender-neutral name -- it can be both girl's and boy's name. But it is a diminutive, and full variants indeed differ -- Alexandra and Alexander respectively. But Misha, a diminutive of Mikhail, is an exclusively masculine name.

[khathi.livejournal.com]

Really, Artem is actually relatively common name. I can remember about half a dozen Artems on the spot, and half of them I know personally. In fact, a suburb of my native city is called Artem, in honor of labor leader of the same name during revolution and civil war. It's just not so exposed outside of Russia.

[nadyezhda.livejournal.com]

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