The ban on naming children with numbers and swear words forced St. Petersburg parents to show remarkable imagination when choosing names for their beloved children.
It would seem that the law passed in May 2017 prohibiting parents from using numbers, swear words, punctuation marks and positions when choosing a name for a child should have tempered the ardor of the most creative moms and daddies. But no. And last year, St. Petersburg parents did not skimp on unusual names.
True, only a few were named the exclusive names of their children. And they do not hurt the ear as much as Sokol and Nicadria, born in 2015, or Rarog and Kriscentia, born in 2016.
“The boys were named Buyan, Neonil and Severius in 2017,” the Civil Registry Committee told Woman’s Day. – And the girls were given the names Viy, Kitana and Vesseniya.
And if everything is clear with the same Vessenia – a very romantic name for a child born, most likely, in the spring. And Vija is a fairly popular name in the neighboring Baltic states. But little Kitana’s parents definitely spent their young years at the joystick, playing Mortal Kombat. The action of a series of these games unfolds around the life of a character named Kitana, a princess who for a long time worked as one of the personal assassins of Outworld Emperor Shao Kahn.
Star moms of 2017 in their fantasies were in no way inferior to ordinary Petersburg women. Anna Sedokova named her son Hector, and Polina Gagarina named Mia.
But my colleague, having given birth to a girl on New Year’s Eve, called her daughter simply, but tastefully: Maria. And what? Nice old name. True, the baby has every chance of being the third, and maybe the fifth Mashenka in the kindergarten group. And how many Mari in seven years will go with her for the first time to the first grade, and it’s hard to imagine. Sophia has more chances to be at the same desk with the namesake.
It was Sofia who was pushed from the first line of the rating of the most popular children’s names for girls in St. Petersburg, Mary, who had been in the lead for the previous three years (by the way, this name became the most popular not only in Russia, but also in the world). The five leaders in St. Petersburg are Anastasia, Alisa and Ksenia. But the boys in the city on the Neva were more often called Alexandra, Artyom, Mikhail, Maxim and Ivan. Compared to 2016 – no changes.