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2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

There is a flash mob about names. And I wanted to look at the names a little wider than just tell the story of my name.

Although, I will also tell about my name, but a little later.

Often you can make an impression by name.

• about the social origin of a person,
• about the tastes of his parents,
• about what message from the family system is given to a person along with a name.

The paradox of the current fashion is that the names that used to testify to belonging to the peasantry today, more often than not, are chosen for their children by representatives of the creative intelligentsia.

Remember the names of the sons of Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

Ermolai, Ignat, Stepan.

The writer Daria Dontsova, the daughter of a famous writer and official, actually has the name Agrafena, which is rare for her generation.

Today Grafirs, Evdokia, Lukerya, Ignaty, Elisei and Akims are no longer uncommon. Most often, they are residents of megacities that are no longer in the first generation, born into a family of educated parents who, with such a choice, pay tribute to the memory of their great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers or designate their belonging to the Russian people.

Foreign names for their children, today, are most often chosen by people who are very eager to break out of their environment and get a higher status, according to the principle:

A beautiful name for a beautiful life.

Often mothers who have come to the metropolis from villages and small villages strive to give their children beautiful names, willingly or not, investing in them the sacred meaning of the key to a beautiful life.

Moms Michele, Nicole and Adeline dream that their daughters will become happier than themselves, paying a lot of attention to the appearance and social success of the child.

Usually girls with these names visit sports and dance studios, achieving significant success.

A separate, not usual for Russia, phenomenon - double names.

For example, the daughter of Philip Kirkorov Alla-Victoria.

It is enough to look at dad to understand that even by choosing a name for a child, he tried to attract maximum attention to his person.

The so-called "noble" names have been and will be classics of the genre:

Catherine, Elizabeth, Alexander and Alexandra are always popular and appropriate in any society, as are the "most Russian" - the Hebrew names most common in the world:

John, Michael, Anna, Maria - there is not a single European people where these names are not used in different ways:

Juan, Miguel, Ann, Mary, etc.

For many years, female names were popular in the USSR:

Elena, Olga, Tatiana, Natalia, Irina, Marina, Svetlana, Galina

And men:

Vladimir, Sergey, Alexander, Victor, Alexey, Dmitry, Yuri

Therefore, there are many of us with such names here now on this site!

Speaking names like

Faith, Hope, Love were sometimes given by parents in order for their daughters to realize in life what they themselves lacked.

Often the cult films of the Soviet era created fashion for a particular name.

So the Ukrainian name Oksana spread in Russia in the mid-60s, after the film "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka", and a new surge in the popularity of names like Alexandra and Nadezhda was noticeably traced in the late 70s, when the films appeared:

"Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" and "The Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath"

And after the song of Yuri Antonov, Anastasia became a hit of names for newborn girls for two decades in a row.

• It is worth noting the fact that a person's attitude to their name speaks of self-esteem.
• Often, people who are dissatisfied with their name have claims to their parents and to life in general.
• Someone resorts to a radical change of name with the replacement of documents, for others it is enough to take a second sacred name at baptism or simply accept it for themselves.