About the site and its data

nazvi.ru helps people choose a Russian name: parents in Russia, families abroad who want a Russian name for their child, and people picking a Russian name for themselves, for example while learning the language.

Where the data comes from

• Name days: the Orthodox calendar of Pravoslavie.Ru, new-style dates, with the saint and a link to the life.
• Meaning and origin: the “Den Angela” reference (2010) and N. A. Petrovsky’s Dictionary of Russian Personal Names, cross-checked; for the most common names the meanings were rewritten by our editors and translated into English and Chinese.
• Nicknames, patronymics, translations: Wiktionary and Wikipedia, CC BY‑SA 4.0. Wiktionary forms are included only where they agree with Petrovsky.
• Popularity: open data of the Moscow civil registry on the 100 most common newborn names for every month since 2015.
• Element: our own classification. The base is the zodiac sign of the main name day; keywords in the meaning adjust it. Every page states why a name is in its element.
• Pronunciation: an English respelling built from the stressed Russian form; capitals mark the stressed syllable.
• Passport spelling: the transliteration rules used in Russian passports since 2014 (ICAO Doc 9303).
• Site language is chosen by country (DB‑IP database, CC BY 4.0) and browser language; the switcher in the header remembers your choice.

What we don’t do

No inflated counters: “name pages opened today” is counted from real views without bots. No pseudo-science about character by name.

Found a mistake?

Write to us with the name and what is wrong. We fix the database, not the page, so the fix appears everywhere.