Popular baby names in Moscow, 2020

According to the Civil Registry of Moscow, the most popular baby names in the city last year were (again) Sofia and Alexander.

Here are Moscow’s top 6 girl names and top 6 boy names of 2020:

Girl Names

1. Sofia (Sofya), over 2,800 baby girls
2. Maria, 2,200 baby girls
3. Anna, 2,084
4. Alisa, 1,729
5. Viktoria, 1,705
6. Polina, 1,603

Boy Names

1. Alexander, over 2,500 baby boys
2. Mikhail, 2,427 baby boys
3. Maxim, 2,284
4. Artyom, 1,827
5. Mark, 1,666
6. Ivan, 1,617

Less commonly bestowed names include Vesna, Dionysus, Iskra (“spark”), Lucifer, Venus-Veronica, Sever, Severina, and Yermak-Alexander. (Yermak could be a reference to the Russian folk hero Yermak Timofeyevich.)

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