The name given at birth accompanies a person throughout his life. And as often happens, a great influence is whether the sonorous name or not. It may happen that, having matured, the owner of an objectionable name decides to change it. Therefore, it is so important to try to choose a beautiful name for the newborn, which the child, and later the adult, will be proud of.
In pursuit of fashion
A name received from parents is a symbol that accompanies a person throughout his life. Young parents sometimes argue for a long time about how to name a newborn. It happens that mom and dad do not want to agree with each other in any way. Studying the rating of names, they select for themselves the most liked, and offer them for discussion.
At all times, there are popular and rare names. But if you choose a name depending on its rating, you should understand that fashion is changeable. Rating of names in different years will be different.
Choosing a fashionable name for a child, remember that after a while everything can change. From popular, it will turn into rare.
And as it was before
Choosing a name, think first of all about a child who will live with him all his life. After all, it came to a funny point when, at the beginning of the 20th century, children were named after the leaders of the communist movement, or they were given names made up of their high-profile slogans.
So the name Dazdraperm appeared, which was made up of the words: long live the first of May. Agree, it’s not very sonorous and silly for a baby to be called that.
Or here is Gertrude. This seems to be a foreign name, but no. It stands for "heroine of labor." Another, reminiscent of the American name Idlen, is made up of the "idea of Lenin."
And how do you like it - Kukutsapol, which means: corn is the queen of the fields. Or Krammy - the Red Army.
The boys also did not stand aside. In the 40s of the 20th century, the rating of male names was headed by: Vector - Great Communism triumphs, and Leninid - Leninist ideas.
Here are some more interesting names: Electrification, Bow, Tractor, Turbine, Dresin.
It can be seen that the people did their best to give the children sonorous and fashionable names, but their parents did not think at all that the slogans could soon change. And they didn’t think about how the baby would then live with that name.
Custom Names
Making a rating of popular names, you can turn to the registry office. They can almost always provide information about unusual names. Although in Russia it is not as common as, for example, in America, they give children non-standard names, but there are still cases.
Usually they call a baby non-standard and unusual in a family where father or mother is of foreign origin. So, according to the registry offices of Moscow and the Moscow region, some children received such names as Graf, Mercury, Matvey-Rainbow, Luka-Happiness, Russia, Uslada, Joy, Dolphin, Sofia-Sunny.
Civil registry officials are likely to register a child with an unusual name. But if it is too non-standard and wonderful, parents are discouraged. Or they may even refuse to write in the birth certificate of a phrase unlike the name, and give the child a common name.
Rare names
Recently it has become fashionable to choose a name for the baby according to the holy calendar. Parents try to find out which patron the child was born on and give him that name.
Studying the ranking of female names over the past decade, one can see a tendency to return beautiful, but once forgotten names. So, now such names for girls as Vasilisa, Varvara and Ulyana are very popular.
From the historical past, Matvey, Bogdan, Timothy, Luke, Akim and Karl were included in the ranking of names for boys.
Complex names
After the Great October Revolution, when the baptism of a newborn was not considered mandatory, moreover, harmful, the girls began to come up with complex names.
Why girls? This is explained by the fact that on behalf of the boy in the future patronymic will be made. Therefore, male names were chosen simpler and more comfortable. Such requirements were not put forward for girls, and parents showed violent imagination.
The ranking of female names included complexly formed names consisting of several words. Often met Adelfina, Beatrice, Vladislav, Vlastilin and Bronislav.
