Runa, Diodorus, Ogneslava and Aviner. Petersburg parents are a lot for invention. Woman’s Day found out how fathers and mothers from the Northern capital called their children this year.
For 10 months of 2016, 55,5 thousand new residents of St. Petersburg were born. And there were almost two thousand more boys – 28618 than girls (26887).
“The boys this year were named Aviner, Vikram, Diodor, Zdislav, Izyaslav, Pervosvet, Rarog, Selevk, Ogneslav, Elem,” the Civil Registry Committee told Woman’s Day. – And the girls were given the names Agniyar, Akiyana, Alexandra, June, Kaprina, Kriskentia, Leana, Ogneslav, Runa, Tsarina.
In general, parents did not skimp on unusual names for their children. But will all children, having reached a smart age, then say “thank you” for this? It will be easier for the owners of Indian (Vikram), Polish (Zdislav) or Greek (Diodorus) names to walk through life with their heads held high. But Criscentia at the beginning of the last millennium was the name of the holy martyr from Italy. Rarog is in Slavic mythology a fiery spirit associated with the cult of the hearth. And the revolutionary name “Engels Lenin Marx”, abbreviated to Elem, will certainly become a reason for jokes from classmates. And the grandchildren will not get the most sonorous patronymic.
But the list of the most popular names has not changed much compared to 2015. Among the most popular options for boys are Alexander, Maxim, Mikhail, Artem and Ivan. Common names for girls are Maria, Anastasia, Sofia, Anna and Victoria.
By the way, the stars are no less willing to choose unusual and sometimes exotic names for their heirs. Ballerina Anastasia Volochkova named her daughter Ariadna. Figure skater Elena Berezhnaya is raising her daughter Sofia-Diana and son Tristan. And the son of the leader of the “Leningrad” group, Sergei Shnurov, is called Apollo!
Actress Anna Kovalchuk gave her children the beautiful old names Zlata and Dobrynya. The eldest son of the Olympic figure skating champion Evgeny Plushenko from his marriage to Maria Ermak is called Yegor. But when the boy was just born, the skater insisted on the name Christian – in honor of the famous football player Cristiano Ronaldo.