Ukraine’s Minister of Justice recently announced the most popular baby names in Ukraine for the first half of 2010 were Anastasia and Maksym.
I can’t give you proper rankings (because they weren’t included in the news release, oddly) but here are the other baby names that were mentioned:
| Boy Names | Girl Names |
|---|---|
| Andriy Arseniy Artem Artur Bohdan Daniil (Danylo) David Denis Dmytro Gleb Ilya Ivan Kyrylo Marc Maksym Mykhaylo Mykola Mykyta Nazar Oleksandr Pavlo Serhiy Timur Tymofiy Vadym Victor Vitaliy Yegor Yevgeniy Yuriy | Alina Anastasia Angelina Anna (Hanna) Arina Cristina (Hrystyna) Darya (Daryna) Diana Elizabeth Eva Iryna Karina Kateryna Maria Oleksandra Olga Polina Sofia Tatiana Valeria Veronica Victoria Yana Yulia |
Sources: The most popular names in Ukraine were Anastasia and Maxim, Most popular baby names in Ukraine
Image: Adapted from Flag of Ukraine (public domain)
Love Oleksandra. I’m not an Alexandra/Alexis/other Alex nicknamed girl names fan, but this one I do like. I always wondered how Oleg came about…I guess it’s originally a nickname for Olegsandr/Oleksandr that split off. And Olga probably is related to that too….I always wanted to use Olga and was shot down the moment I found out I was pregnant!! I wonder if I would have managed better with Oleksandra.
I find it interesting that the girls names follow a lot of the same trends as in the U.S. (and mostly have common English equivalents) while the boys names don’t as much.
I’m always surprised that Paula/Paulette/Pauline/Paulina aren’t more popular in the U.S. when their variants are used extensively around the world.