When choosing the right and beautiful name for your son, it is important not to make a mistake. It is not a great secret that the name of a person determines his own destiny. You can give a name to the baby, which in the future will only help him through life. And it is possible to significantly worsen the life circumstances of the future man with the same name. How to choose Ukrainian 2019 correctly and harmoniously? What does the popular naming mean, and how can it affect the future human destiny?

Names for boys

Parents are advised to take care of choosing a name for their little son in advance. It is important to take into account the factor that the boy will become the successor of the family, and, accordingly, his chosen name should also give a beautiful middle name. Moreover, the name of the boy must necessarily be in harmony with the chosen surname, because the future man will certainly have an appropriate position in society, and he does not need any ridicule that is associated with a mismatch between the surname and name.

Of course, most parents prefer to choose popular boy names in 2019 in Ukraine. But you need to know that modernity does not stop in place, so often exotic and rather unusual names come into use. In no case should you choose a name that will somehow humiliate the boy, so it's best to opt for a simple but rather beautiful name.

With the appropriate choice, the time of birth of the boy is of great importance. It is known and proven that each season of the year brings its own characteristics into the character of a person, but with a properly chosen name, one can burden or highlight the main qualities. Interestingly, the most popular names for boys in 2019 can soften the positive qualities in the character and weight the negative in the child's disposition. What gives the character of a person each of the seasons?

Ukrainian traditions of composing and naming

The list of Ukrainian names is close to Russian, as well as Belarusian, since all three peoples had common sources - these are both Orthodox saints and pagan names. The latter functioned for a long time on a par with church ones: in everyday life a person was called by the name that his parents gave him, pagan, and not the church. For example, Bohdan Khmelnitsky had a church name Zinovy, which was rarely mentioned anywhere. The ancestors of the Ukrainians believed that in this case a person would be protected by two different mystical principles - paganism and Christianity.

Over time, the names of the church calendar entered everyday life and began to be perceived as native. Under the influence of speech, church Ukrainian female names underwent phonetic changes, as a result of which their own variants appeared. So, borrowed Alexandra, Anna, Agripina turned into Oleksandr, Hann, Gorpin (in Ukrainian, the initial “a-” is transformed). The names that have the letter “f” in their composition also change: Theodore - Khved, Joseph - Yosip, Osip.

Historically, there was no sound f in the East Slavic languages, which is reflected in the already mentioned form "Opanas", as well as in the now obsolete version of the name Philip - Pilip. In folk speech, the letter “f” was usually replaced by “p” (Philip - Pilip), while “fita” was most often replaced by “t” (Theokla - Teklya, Theodosius - Todos, Fadey - Tadey).

Many names were formed with the help of diminutive suffixes: Leo - Levko, Varvara - Varka. At the same time, they were considered full-fledged names, which were used not only in everyday life, but also in official documents.

Modern Ukrainian male and female names consist of several types: names from the Orthodox calendar, as well as their folk and secular forms; Slavic names (Volodimir, Vladislav, Miroslav, Vsevolod, Yaroslav); names of the Catholic calendar (Casimir, Teresa, Wanda); borrowings from other languages ​​(Albert, Zhanna, Robert, Karina).

Modern trends

The most popular female and male names in Ukraine were recorded: Danilo, Maxim, Mikita, Vladislav, Artem, Nazar, Darina, Sofia, Angelina, Diana.
In Ukraine, over the past few years, about 30 names have remained popular when registering children, the most common among which are the names Alexander and Anastasia.

At present, however, there are broad sections of people with a mixed Ukrainian-Russian identity who may prefer one or another variant of the name, which does not always coincide with the form declared by the nationality and language of the document. Therefore, now both Anna and Hanna write in passports; and Olena, and Alyon; and Natalya, and Natalia, depending on the desire of the carrier.

It should also be noted that many typical Ukrainian forms of Orthodox names, starting from the 1930s, in Soviet Ukraine were gradually replaced by their Russian or quasi-Russian counterparts, and were preserved only in the western regions. For example, in eastern Ukraine, instead of the traditional Ukrainian Todos, Todosіy, the Russified form Feodosіy is currently used.

Names that were not common among ordinary people before the beginning of the 20th century, for example, Viktor, have identical forms in Russian and Ukrainian.

Most often, Ukrainians choose among male names:

Alexander, Danil, Maxim, Vladislav, Nikita, Artem, Ivan, Kirill, Egor, Ilya, Andrey, Alexei, Bogdan, Denis, Dmitry, Yaroslav.

Among female names are more common:

Anastasia, Alina, Daria, Ekaterina, Maria, Natalia, Sofia, Julia, Victoria, Elizabeth, Anna, Veronica, Ulyana, Alexandra, Yana, Christina.

However, the sympathy of Ukrainians for strange or unusual names for Ukraine does not decrease either. So, recently, boys named Loammiy, Lenmar, Yustik, Ararat, Augustine, Zelay, Pietro, Ramis and girls named Elita, Navista, Piata, Eloria, Karabina, Yurdana have been registered.

The indicator of Ukrainians, who, at a conscious age, expressed a desire to change their own name, remains constant.

The Ukrainian name book is close to Russian and Belarusian, since the main sources of names for all three peoples were Orthodox saints and, to a lesser extent, the traditional circle of pagan Slavic names.

As you know, among the East Slavic peoples, pagan names for a long time functioned in parallel with the church ones. Receiving a church name at baptism, a person in everyday life used the traditional Slavic name given to him by his parents. Among Ukrainians, this custom lasted a very long time: for example, Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky bore a double name - Bogdan-Zinovy ​​(the church name Zinovy ​​was given at baptism, and the Slavic Bogdan acted as the main name).

However, the names from the church calendar gradually entered Ukrainian life and were no longer perceived as borrowed. At the same time, under the influence of folk speech, they underwent strong phonetic changes, and as a result, in parallel with the canonical church names, their secular and folk variants arose: Elena - Olena, Emilian - Omelyan, Glikeriya - Licker, Luker, Agripina - Gorpina (the same process took place also in Russian: cf. Elena - Alena, Emilian - Emelyan, Glykeria - Lukerya, Agrippina - Agrafena).

Like the Old Russian language, Ukrainian does not allow the initial a-, so the borrowed names Alexander, Alexey, Averky turned into Oleksandr, Oleksiy, Overkiy. Initially, the sound f, unusual for the Ukrainian language, in folk speech turned into p or hv: Theodore - Khvedir, Khved; Athanasius - Panas, Opanas; Evstafiy - Ostap; Yosif - Josip, Osip (although the forms Afanasiy, Evstafiy and Yosif are still used in parallel in the Ukrainian language). In Western dialects, the sound f, denoted in writing by "fitoy", turned into t: Theodore - Todor; Athanasius - Atanas.

Many folk forms were formed using diminutive suffixes: Grigory - Gritsko, Pelagia - Palazhka, Leo - Levko, Varvara - Varka. Nevertheless, despite their external "diminutiveness", they were perceived as full names. So, the sons of Bohdan Khmelnitsky were known among contemporaries under the names of Yurko (Yuras) and Timish, although their baptismal names were Yuri (Georgiy, Russian George) and Timofiy (Russian Timofey).

Modern Ukrainian names can be divided into several categories:

1) The most extensive layer is the already mentioned names from the Orthodox calendar and their folk and secular forms. Some names are predominantly common in folk form: Mikhailo, Ivan, Olena, Tetyana, Oksana, Dmitro (church Mikhail, Ioan, Elena, Tatiana, Xenia, Dimitri). Others are more common in the church (canonical) - Evgenia, Irina, Anastasia, although these names also have folk variants: Їvga / Yugina, Yarina / Orina, Nastasia / Nastka. Olesya and Lesya are very popular as passport names, initially - diminutive forms of the names Oleksandr and Larisa (the male version of Oles / Les is less common).

2) Slavic names: Vladislav, Volodymyr (Russian Vladimir), Miroslav, Yaroslav, Svyatoslav, Vsevolod, Stanislav. Note that in Ukraine Slavic names are more common than in Russia; female forms are also more often used: Yaroslava, Miroslava, Stanislava, Vladislava.

3) Names from the Catholic calendar, spread due to contacts with Catholic Poland and found mainly in the western regions of Ukraine: Tereza, Wanda, Witold, Casimir.

4) Names borrowed from other languages ​​relatively recently: Alina, Alisa, Zhanna, Diana, Albert, Robert, Snezhana, Karina.

In the time of our ancestors, the names given to newborns had special meanings. Now, secret meanings are of little interest to anyone. This material will tell about Ukrainian names, their history.

Historical digression

Ukrainians took to a greater extent part of the names from the Orthodox saints and to a lesser extent - the traditional names of the Slavs.

The Eastern Slavs for a long time used the ancient names of their pagan ancestors along with the church ones. And so it happened: a person at baptism in the Christian church received a church name, and at birth he was called an ordinary one. Thus, two deities guarded the child all his life: a pagan god and a Christian saint. Church names, according to numerous written sources, were hidden from all strangers. So the person defended himself from slander, damage and the evil eye. Double names are not uncommon today.

Over time, Church Slavonic names have firmly entered the life of Ukrainians and began to be perceived positively by them. Due to the specifics of the language and peculiarities of pronunciation, they have slightly changed. For example, Ukrainian names never started with the letter a: Oleksandr (Alexander), Overky (Averky). Similar modifications occurred with the letter f: Khved (Theodore), Panas (Athanasius). However, names with this letter at the end still exist today: Eustathius, Joseph. Diminutive forms have become full-fledged replacements: Levko (formerly Leo), Palazhka (formerly Pelageya), Varka (formerly Varvara), Gritsko (formerly Grigory), Yurko (formerly Yuras), Timysh (Timofey).

What is popular these days?

There is the following classification of Ukrainian names:

• The names that came from the old Orthodox calendar (Larisa, Oleksandra, Olena) are quite common, they are still called children;
• Male Ukrainian names, the roots of which stretch from the Old Slavonic language and its many dialects: Svyatoslav, Vladislav, Yaroslav, Yaropolk, Yaromir, Vsevolod;
• Polish with a Catholic origin: Lubomir, Teresa, Wanda;
• Female Ukrainian names that came from other countries, obeying fashion trends: Karina, Zhanna, Josetta.

Most of the Ukrainian modern names are of Romano-Germanic origin. They are characterized by ancient symbolism (everyone, without exception, has a meaning and meaning), two-complexity: Miroslav, Brotherlyub.

What was the most common name given to children in Ukraine this year?

Statistics report that last year the most popular names for girls and boys in Ukraine were Alexander (Sasha) and Anastasia (Nastya). They are beautiful and have excellent positive characteristics, whose authenticity is proved by the happy fates of thousands of Nastya and Sasha, who have already lived their lives on earth. Alexander has always been considered the winner, and Anastasia means "reborn". By naming children in this way, people hope for a bright future, a good and calm life.

Anna (Anyuta, Anya), Alena (Alenka), Valentina (Valya), Polina (Fields), Natalya (Natasha), Elizaveta (Lisa) also appeared in the top of the most popular female names in the last six months. Ancient names are now in less demand, people are more likely to pay tribute to fashion.

Boys were most often called like this: Maxim (Max), Dmitry (Dima), Phillip, Egor (Egorka), Nikita. Many of these names have Slavic roots and are actively used in Russia and the Near Abroad.

The rarest names

What was the least common name for boys? They were: Zelay, Augustine, Loammiy. These names are unusual, they are difficult to pronounce and combine with the surname and patronymic of an ordinary Ukrainian. Children named like this may have problems with peers at school and in the yard.

The girls also received the following rare names: Carbine, Indira, Ale, Aladina. They are rarely used because of the difficulty of pronunciation and dissonance, together with the often most common surnames of Ukrainians.

List of beautiful Ukrainian names

The name of the baby should be happy and joyful, give hope for the best and warm with its sound. Only loving parents who wish him happiness can name a child that way.

Many peoples live on the modern territory of Ukraine: Ukrainians, Russians, Belarusians, Greeks, Armenians, Jews, Bulgarians, Georgians. Such a diversity of nations is due to the historical development of this state. Ukrainian female names have an ancient and original history.

Brief information about the history of the appearance of Ukrainian names

In ancient times, the lands of Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Poltava, Chernihiv and other central regions of Ukraine were inhabited by tribes of pagan Slavs. With the advent of the state of Kievan Rus, a legend is connected about the arrival of the Vikings, who were the first rulers of Russia: Rurik, Igor, Olga, Oleg - all these names are of Scandinavian origin.

After the Christianization of Russia by Prince Vladimir, the original Slavic and Scandinavian pagan names began to be gradually replaced by Greek ones. However, fortunately, the people did not abandon their culture. Newborns began to be given two names: one - Slavic (pagan), and the other - Greek (Christian). It was the stability of tradition that made it possible to preserve the original flavor of Slavic names.

With the further division of Russia into the Kievan and Moscow principalities, with the expansion of the territory of the state and the settlement of the Slavs from Moscow to the shores of the Sea of ​​\u200b\u200bAzov, Russian and Ukrainian female names, which historically have a common origin, began to differ.

The difference between Russian and Ukrainian names

When the center of Kievan Rus shifted to the Principality of Moscow, Christianity became a truly native religion for the people of Rus, estates (peasants, boyars, princes) appeared in society, and cultural interaction between the state and other countries of Europe and Asia began to develop. As a result of the strengthening of Christianity as the state religion, newborns were given two names: one was chosen according to the calendar (this name was often advised by the priest), and the second was Slavic, used in the home circle.

With the increase in literacy in society, Slavic names began to gradually fall out of use and were replaced by Christian names, especially those mentioned in sacred texts. Old Russian, and then Russian society, especially its most prosperous stratum, increasingly adopted European culture.

At the same time, on the territory of modern Ukraine, among the common people, ancient traditions were preserved and maintained. If in Ancient Russia Slavic names were used mainly in the family, and officially a person was represented by the name given to him at baptism, then in Ukraine the situation was the other way around. The main name was considered Slavic. Perhaps this is the reason why Ukrainian female names have retained their national flavor.

Phonetic features of Ukrainian names

Foreign names, once in the Old Russian environment, changed their pronunciation. So, for example, the Greek name Anna in Ukrainian acquired the form of Hann, the name Xenia - Oksana, and the name Theodore - Todora.

This happened because in the Old Russian language, which was spoken 1000 years ago by the Slavs of Kievan and Moscow Rus (it was one language), the sound f- it was not at all, for the Slavs it was difficult to pronounce, and it was replaced with a more convenient sound t-. This is how the name Todor appeared.

And the sound a- in the language of the Eastern Slavs never stood at the beginning of a word (absolutely all concepts that in Russian or Ukrainian begin with a-, are of foreign origin: watermelon, arba, aria, aquamarine). This is how Ukrainian forms appeared: Oleksandr, Oleksiy, Olesya, Oksana. From parallel Russians, for example Aksinya, formed from the Greek Xenia.

It must be said that the replacement of the initial a- on the about- was characteristic of the entire folk environment of Russia in general (and not just the territory of modern Ukraine). Thus, the Russian merchant from Tver, Afanasy Nikitin, in his book Journey Beyond the Three Seas (XV century) calls himself Othonasius.

Ancient monosyllabic female names

Old Ukrainian female names can consist of one root (Vera, Volya, Zhdana). Some of these ancient names are common, and some are obsolete. The monosyllabic female names of Ukrainians include, for example, those presented below.

Ancient disyllabic female names

Currently, Ukrainian female names consisting of two roots are a little more common. Vladislav - from the words "glory" and "power" - strength, courage. Zlatomir - from the concepts of "peace" and "gold" - gold. The meaning that the original Ukrainian female names have (list below) is sometimes easy to determine on your own by the root of the word. Next, consider specific examples. Two-syllable Ukrainian female names are beautiful, melodic, colorful. They reflect the music and poetry of the people. An example of them are the following: Bozhemila, Boleslav, Brotherlyub, Dobrogora, Druzhelyuba, Zlatomir, Lyubava ("beloved"), Lyubomila, Lubomir, Lyuboslav, Mechislav, Miroslava, Wise, Radmira, Svetlana, Svetoyara.

As can be seen from this list, rare Ukrainian female names most often contain syllables - glory, -love, -sweet, -peace. It can be assumed that this principle of word formation contains the primordial values ​​of the Slavs: to be loved, feminine ("sweet"), kind ("peace") and brave ("glory").

Modern Ukrainian names

In modern Ukraine, the same names are mostly found that are used in Russia and Belarus. They are of Slavic, Greek, Roman, Jewish and Scandinavian origin. However, unlike the Russian society, in Ukraine there is a gradual increase in interest in ancient names, which indicates an increase in the spirit of patriotism in society and attention to their own cultural traditions. This is especially true for the western regions of the country, where newborn girls are increasingly given Old Slavic names, which are presented above.

However, despite the fact that every year the number of newborn girls who are given Slavic names is increasing, in the whole country the general fashion from Eastern Europe still influences the choice of names.

Popular female Ukrainian names: Alina, Alice, Anna / Ganna, Bogdana, Victoria, Veronika, Darina, Diana, Elizabeth, Katerina / Ekaterina, Christina, Lyudmila, Nadezhda, Natalia, Maria, Oksana, Olesya, Sofia, Tatyana, Uliana, Julia .

Conclusion

Female names common on the territory of modern Ukraine are diverse both in meaning and in history of origin. However, of all the East Slavic peoples, Ukrainians (especially from the western regions of the country) seem to have preserved ancient Slavic names in their onomasticon more than others. Once upon a time they were used by all Slavs, but with the adoption of Christianity they were gradually replaced by Greek and European ones.