Russian Names

Originally Posted by topper

I understand that certain forms of names are impolite and considered vulgar.

For instance you should never call your friend Anna: Anka....

Why is this???

When would someone say "Anka" to Anna?

Originally Posted by Pin Boy

well explained andrei. thanks for helping clear up in one short post what would take non russians a whole textbook to figure out

pin boy

Originally Posted by andrei

examples (with approximate analogs in English):

(1) original: Olga ------------------ Mary
(2) 'tender' by changing the ending: Olya --------- Lil' Mary
(3)'tender' by using two suffixes: Olenka, Olechka ---------- Dear Lil Mary, Baby Mary
(4) "rough' by using one suffix/ending: Olka ----------- Good ol' b-tch Mary

(1) Galina -------------- Katherine-
(2) Galya ---------------- Kathy
(3) Galinka, Galochka ------------ Nice lil' Kathy
(4) Galka --------------- Our stankin' ass Kathy

Originally Posted by topper

I understand that certain forms of names are impolite and considered vulgar.

For instance you should never call your friend Anna: Anka....

Why is this???

When would someone say "Anka" to Anna?

Originally Posted by Writer

I was wondering a few more things about Russian naming practices. Particularly, about last names.

1. Do Russian women change their last names to those of their husbands?

2. Do Russian children take on the last names of their fathers or mothers?

Originally Posted by Legal

1) It depends on a woman - if she wants she can take a last name of her husband or she can use her maiden name or she can use a double last name - Romanova (her maiden name) + Kern (husband's lust name) = Romanova-Kern.

Originally Posted by stevo

Is that really the Russian naming practice? I thought that almost without exception, the wife takes the surname (in a feminine form where possible) of the husband.

Originally Posted by cedarwind

That is almost always what I have seen.

The only women I know of that used her maiden name was a New Russian who had been Americanized by the feminist movement.

Originally Posted by stevo

Is that really the Russian naming practice? I thought that almost without exception, the wife takes the surname (in a feminine form where possible) of the husband.

Originally Posted by davidg

in the stamp on her passport, it says what her surname will be after. Mine kept hers because she thought my name sounded stupid and taht hers was nice!

Originally Posted by youlek

I have a unique name. It is Éóëèÿ

Originally Posted by andrei

to davidg and XNedra:

what are those silly names? just curious))

Originally Posted by X'Nedra

My surname is Picciotto (pitch-cho-to)...... His is Poluyantsev.

See, Much better isn' it

Originally Posted by andrei

At least when you take his surname, make sure you become POLUYANTSEVA, not Poluyantsev. Otherwise you'll be a woman with a male surname, which is ridiculous (like Monica Lewinski- a girl with a male surname).

Originally Posted by X'Nedra

And to add a srange twist. Incidentally we have a mutual friend name Anna and his mothers name was Galina....