Ukrainian names

Hi to everybody! Oftenly foreigners who come to Ukraine or Russia have some trouble with remembering names. Our names sounds very wierd and makes you uncomfortable.

Here I decided to create a list of the most popular names in Ukraine (and Russia).

We have maybe 30 popular names for boys and girls, which have mayby 80% of Ukrainians.

How you can call Ukrainians?

For example, in States it's normal to call somebody for surname. It's like officcial version - Mr. Nielson, Mrs. Daniels....

Ukrainians don't use surname in officcial way, because it will sound a little wierd. 

This is used only at school, when teacher ask you come to the blackboard or at hospital.

(Or maybe in prison too)

So if you want to call Ukrainian, you must say name or name and father's name. Father's name is instead the second name. 

Short variant 

Also we have traditional short variant of name in Ukraine. 

For example, girl with name Elizabeth you can call Bett, Liz, Betty, Betsey and any other way, just like she decided. We don't have this variety of name in Ukraine. If you are Elizabeth, your short name will be Liza and nothing else.  

 That's all that you need to know about Ukrainian's name.

List of the most popular ukrainian names. 

Ukrainian Girl's name

Name	Short name
Alla	Alla
Alina	Alina, Alya
Alyona	Alyona
Anna	Anya
Anastasiya	Nastya
Olexandra	Sasha
Olena	Lena
Olga	Olya
Yuliya	Yulya
Chrystyna	Chtystya, Kristina
Iryna	Ira
Inna	Inna
Oksana	Ksyusha
Tetyana	Tanya
Larisa	Larisa, Lora
Lesya	Lesya
Svitlana	Sveta
Kateryna	Katya
Nataliya	Natasha
Viktoriya	Vika
Yana	Yana
Mariya	Masha
Galyna	Galya
Marianna	Marianna
Daryna	Dasha
Dariya	Dasha
Valeriya	Lera
Marina	Marina
Sohpiya	Sonya
Yelyzaveta	Liza
Veronika	Veronika, Nika

If you meet some Ukrainian girl, I'll  give you 80% that her name will be in that list.

Ukrainian Boy's name

Name	Short name
Andrij	Andrij
Anton	Anton
Olexander	Sasha
Yevgenij	Zhenya
Igor	Igor
Mykola	Kolya
Sergij	Seryozha
Dmytro	Dima
Oleg	Oleg
Pavlo	Pasha
Petro	Petya
Maksym	Maks
Artem	Artem
Denis	Denis
Yurij	Yura
Ivan	Vanya
Bogdan	Bogdan
Volodymyr	Vova
Roman	Roma
Myhajlo	Misha
Arsen, Arsenij	Arsen, Senya
Oleksij	Lyosha
Vadym	Vadym
Yaroslav	Yarik
Vladyslav	Vlad
Stanislav	Stas
Vyacheslav	Slava, Slavik
Rostyslav	Rostik
Borys	Borya
Vasyl	Vasya
Taras	Taras
Vitalij	Vitalik
Ruslan	Ruslan, Rusya

All of this name a popular now for people who are 18 and more years old.

Becouse after this period parents became looking for some new name, so names of children sometimes are different. 

Some parents use old slavic name, some of them gives children international name, so this is list for names of adult people.