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Girls'
Names
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Ukrainian Form(s) |
Boys'
Names
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Ukrainian Form(s) |
| Ahnessa (dim. Nessa, Anessochka) | Oleksandr | ||
| Oleksandra (dim. Lesya) | Andriy | ||
| Alisa | Anton | ||
| Anastassia, Nastasia | Karol | ||
| Khristofor | |||
| Anzhela, Anzhelika | Danylo | ||
| Hanna, Anna, Aneta, (dim. Anichka) | Doyvid | ||
| Antonina | Denys | ||
| Varvara | Eduard | ||
| Yevheniy | |||
| Fredek | |||
| Karolina | Gavril | ||
| Kateryna | Yuriy, Hyorhiy | ||
| Tsetsiliya | Garalt | ||
| Kristina | Hrihoriy | ||
| Klarysa | Genrik | ||
| Doroteya | Isaak | ||
| Elizaveta | Yakiv | ||
| Amaliji | Yukhim, Yakhim | ||
| Yesfir | Ivan | ||
| Yeva (dim. Yevtsya) | Yosyp | ||
| Yuliyan | |||
| Yustin? | |||
| Olena | Laurentiy, Lavrenti | ||
| Leonid | |||
| Ionna | Lyudvig | ||
| Luka | |||
| Marko | |||
| Yuliya, Uliana | Martyn | ||
| Lavra | Matviyko | ||
| Liliya | Mykhailo | ||
| Mykola | |||
| Lusya | Pavlo | ||
| Magdalina | Petro | ||
| Margarita | Pylyp | ||
| Marta | |||
| Mariya (dim. Maryska) | |||
| Mykhaila | Robert | ||
| Nataliya (dim. Natalka) | Samuil | ||
| Sevastyan | |||
| Pavla, Polina | Symon | ||
| Rahil | Stefan | ||
| Rozaliya | Fedir | ||
| Sofiya, Sonya | Toma, Fomo | ||
| Stepanida | Timofei | ||
| Siusana | Viktor | ||
| Vikenty | |||
| Vilhelm | |||
| Zakhar | |||
Other Ukrainian Names
Note: Many Ukrainian forms of names are the same as the Russian forms of names. They may be pronounced slightly differently, though. The names listed below are ones that differ from their Russian counterparts.
GIRLS:
Name - Origin (diminiutive forms) - origin, meaning (English form,
if applicable)
Agata, Agafya (dims. Gata, Gasha, Gatochka)- Greek, "holy"
(Agatha)
Bohuslava - "Slavic, "glory of god"
Boyka - "from Western Ukraine"
Darya (dim. Daryna) - from Persian "possessing goodness"
Halyna - Greek, "calm"
Iryna, Aryna - Greek, "peace" (Irene)
Kalyna - Ukrainian type of shrub, called "guilder rose"
Lyubov (dims. Lyuba, Lyubochka) -"love"
Lyudmyla - Slavic, "favor of the people"
Oksana - Greek, "hospitality" (Xenia)
Svitlana - Slavic, "light; holy"
Vasylyna- Greek, "king"
Vesna - "spring"
Viktoriya - Latin "victorious"
Vira - Slavic, "faith"
BOYS:
Name - Origin Origin (diminiutive forms) - origin, meaning (English
form, if applicable)
Bohdan - Slavic,
"glory of god"
Bohuslav - "Slavic, "glory of god"
Boyko- "from Western Ukraine"
Dmytro- Greek "of the goddess Demeter" (Demetrius)
Faddei (dim. Fadyushka)- Greek, "brave" (Thaddeus)
Krystyan - Greek, "a Christian"
Kyrylo- Greek, "lord" (Cyril)
Kostyantyn - Latin, "constant" (Constantine)
Mykyta - Greek, "unconquerable"
Nazar- Latin "Nazareth"
Oleksiy- Greek, "defender" (Alexis)
Serhiy- possibly from Latin "servant" (Serge)
Taras - Greek, "from Taras [place name]
Vasyl- Greek, "king" (Basil)
Volodymyr - Slavic, "to rule with greatness" or "to
rule with peace"