Collections

Collections are computed from data, not curated by taste: registry statistics, translations, origin and the church calendar.

Top 30 in Moscow or more than 6,000 children in ten years.

Climbed the ranking since 2015: names families are rediscovering.

Outside the registry top 100. Unlikely to meet a namesake in class.

Has direct equivalents in English, German, Spanish. No spelling it out.

Slavic or Russian root.

Has name days in the Orthodox calendar.

No sounds that are hard for English speakers: ы, щ, х, rolling clusters.

Short, without consonant clusters or sounds that are hard for Chinese speakers.