Names are Russian for your newborn. The rarest, beautiful, ancient and modern Russian names

The name is the first thing that a child receives from his parents when he comes into the world. The importance of this moment in a person's life is great. Today, no one is arguing with this. Therefore, parents choose the name of the child with all responsibility. So it was at all times. And the names of men (whether Russian, Georgian or Armenian) from any people were selected with particular care.

Long since the boy was the future protector of the family, his successor. It was believed that the well-chosen male names largely depended on the well-being and prosperity of the family. In our lives, most people tend to observe the customs and traditions of their people, so knowing the history of the origin of names and names, their meaning is very useful.

As they called in pre-Christian Russia

Rich and varied was the name in pre-Christian Russia. And this is not surprising. The most fantastic origin was Russian Slavic names. Male title forms could indicate, for example, the serial number of the appearance of a child in the family - Tretyak, Shestak, Chetvertak and others.

External signs of a person also influenced the choice of a name for him. Consideration was given to the color of hair, eyes, skin, and physique. From here came the names of Chernysh, Belyak, Tolstoy, Sukhoi and others.

Character traits, habits, behavior of the child also did not elude the attention of adult family members. The result of observations of the children was the appearance of the names Creek, Scriaba, Nesmeyan, Bulgak (restless).

Totem beliefs of the ancient Slavs gave rise to special names. Male Russian nicknames could denote the names of revered animals and plants, for example, Wolf, Bull, Pyrus, Sorrel.

By what principle children were called

In pre-Christian Russia, the words that people used to refer to could indicate the time of the child's birth year, his desired or unwanted appearance in the family. The belief that the person's name can ward off evil spirits, too, could influence the choice.

Crafts, social status, origin, the desire to live with neighbors in friendship and harmony - everything could reflect the word that the baby was called. In this regard, the list of Slavic names in modern man can cause a smile. And sometimes we can not even understand what our ancestors were guided by.

Historians know many pre-Christian names. Men's (Russian, Old Slavonic, Old Russian) titles - Zhdan, Peresvet, Bogdan, Nezhdan, Veshnyak, Nemil, Tugarin, Chudin, Tatar - were also widely used by people of that time. And this is not the whole list.

There were few restrictions on the choice of names. But they still were. This primarily concerned the names of the Rurik dynasty. Each of its branches had a certain set of titles, which were most often worn by representatives of this particular family.

The names of the ruling nobility differed in sound from the words that ordinary people called them. They had a double basis and carried a certain semantic load. For example, the names Vladimir, Svyatoslav, Yaroslav, Svyatopolk, Vsevolod had sublime significance and pointed to power, valor, glory.

Many believe that Oleg, Igor, Gleb are the names of the Russian men. But this opinion is erroneous, since they were borrowed from Scandinavian languages and at that time had a very narrow distribution. They could be worn by representatives of noble families, as well as their descendants.

Christian names

What were they like? By the time of the adoption of Christianity in, there was an established system of names, which had deep historical roots. But Orthodoxy required submission to new rules and norms.

The name given to the born person was given by the church, using a special calendar-monthly, which was called the Holy. There were samples for censure. Children were named in honor of the holy martyrs who glorified the Christian faith. So parents did not really influence the choice.

At the baptism each person received a new name in honor of a certain saint. It became official for everyone. The priest gave the parents the choice of only those names that were on the birthday of the child.

Until now, it is believed that the saint, after whom a person is named, is his patron and protector for life.

Male names Russian Orthodox, as well as women, have different origins. Some of them came from the Greek language, others have Jewish, Roman, Latin roots. In those nationalities, where the names came from, they are endowed with a certain lexical meaning. For the Russian language, their sound was unusual, sometimes evoked hostility, ridicule.

Some of the names are found in the Svyattsy more often than others, so they were most widely distributed, for example, Vasily, Alexander, Andrew. Part of the samples for crying babies was completely forgotten because of their rare use.

New and old names

For a long time tradition remained in Russia. According to her, a man had two names - one official, received at baptism, and another, which was used in everyday life. This was due to the fact that each family and family had certain customs in censuring children. Echoes of this tradition, we can observe in our time.

In addition, the family was honored to honor the elders - their authority was considered indisputable. The ancestors bore pre-Christian names, and this required respect for the younger members of the family. Therefore, it took more than one hundred years to remove the Old Slavonic names from use. Today, many of us can hardly imagine what they were like.

Subsequently, many Old Slavonic names were used as family names.

Three forms - folk, literary, ecclesiastical

In the history of the formation of Russian names, there is a period when simultaneously there were three of their forms. Each of them had a certain influence on certain groups of the country's population.

Most of the names were those that were still used by the people in everyday life, that is, pre-Christian patterns. Sometimes they met in documents. This practice was eliminated by a special decree of Peter I, where it was said that the only correct name is that which is given to a person by the church during the rite of baptism.

In the XVII century, serious changes affected the Orthodox Church. Patriarch Nikon decided to correct the inaccuracies that existed in her books. Adjustments have been made and in the Holy.

The innovations brought a lot of confusion to the established norms of pronunciation and use of Christian names. And then they were considered literary.

Old (Russian) male names also underwent certain changes. For example, Ivan was familiar to us before John. Those people, who were called Kasyanami, began to be called Cassian. Danil turned into Daniel, Sergei into Sergius, Alexei into Alexia.

As history shows, new Christian names have not taken root among the people. They were used only in church vocabulary.

Full and short form of samples for grumbling

What are they? The presence of a short and complete form of the name speaks for the peculiarity of the Russian language. For many nations this is unacceptable. The full form of the name is used in the official speech, in the documents. For everyday household use, such names are not always convenient, because they have a non-characteristic for Russian language sound. For example, Alexander, Peter, George and others.

The short form of the name was formed from the full, but its sound is adapted to the Russian language. So it is more convenient for us both to pronounce and to perceive. A short form is used in informal speech, used by people who are in friendly, close, close relationships.

The old Russian men's names sounded in a new way. We still use them - these are Sasha, Seryozha, Petya, Natasha, Olya, and so on.

Diminutive and caressing names

Without them we can not imagine ourselves and our loved ones. A special group in the Russian language was made by diminutive, caressing, and other names that carry an emotional coloring. These samples can not be neutral. They express a certain attitude of one who addresses a person. Therefore, their use is limited. In official terms, the scoring of such names is completely ruled out.

How to name the newborn?

In those days, when Russian male names for the child were offered by the church, their variety was not great. The word that called the person, completely depended on the saint who was born or died the day the baby was born.

Today, beautiful male names (Russian, foreign), of old origin and completely new, are "freely available" for parents when they choose the option for censuring the born boy. Nobody influences their choice.

To think it is necessary only that this name becomes the original card of the person for all his life. With him, the child should be comfortable, it should please him and cause pride. And the name of the boy will someday become the basis of the patronymic for his children. This should be remembered today, when parents are facing a difficult choice.

Rare and fashionable names

It can be noted that periodically there is a certain tendency when choosing a sample for censuring a child. At all times there was a fashion for names. The frequency of use of some led to the fact that others became forgotten and used very rarely. A certain time passed, and the positions of the names changed.

For example, there were times when Russian male names (modern and fashionable now) were considered cacophonous, unattractive. These are such samples as Zahar, Eremey, Philip, Egor and others. And today you can meet boys who are proud that their parents called it so.

The fashion in men's names could be influenced by representatives of the ruling dynasties, literary characters, heroes of the fatherland, historical figures. And this does not surprise anyone.

Consequences of fashion

A personal name is assigned to a person to emphasize its uniqueness, originality. Fashion for certain samples to censure a child can deprive a person of the possibility of manifesting his or her individuality. She is able to prevent him from living his own, and not someone else's life.

As a result, the pursuit of fashion can affect a person's destiny, and not always positively. Therefore, the choice must be approached with all responsibility. There will be new fashionable or old man's names, Russian or borrowed from other peoples - to solve to parents. The main thing is for a person to feel comfortable throughout his life.