130+ Russian Baby Names for Girls and Boys

Russian baby names carry generations of history and family tradition. Find 130+ choices for girls and boys to consider for your baby.

Updated September 3, 2026

by Lauren Flake

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74 Russian Girl Names
57 Russian Boy Names

Choosing a Russian baby name can honor your heritage or a connection to your family’s history. Russian naming traditions have been shaped by language, faith, literature, and generations of everyday use.

Below, you’ll find more than 130 choices for girls and boys, including formal names, transliterated spellings, and familiar diminutives used in Russian. Each list is alphabetized by the first spelling shown rather than ranked by popularity. Because English transliterations can vary, the formal names were checked against the Russian Academy of Sciences’ list of personal names.¹

74 Russian Girl Names

1. Agrafena

2. Alexandra

3. Alina

4. Alla

5. Alyona

6. Anastasia or Anastasiya

7. Anna or Anya

8. Antonina

9. Arina

10. Bozhena

11. Bronislava or Bronya

12. Daria

13. Dominika

14. Eva

15. Faina

16. Feodora or Fyodora

17. Galina

18. Inessa

19. Inga

20. Inna

21. Irina

22. Karina

23. Katya or Yekaterina

24. Kira

25. Klara

26. Kristina

27. Ksenia

28. Lada

29. Larisa

30. Lidiya

31. Lilia

32. Lyubov

33. Lyudmila

34. Margarita

35. Maria

36. Marina

37. Matryona

38. Maya

39. Milena

40. Mirra

41. Nadezhda or Nadia

42. Natalya

43. Nina

44. Oksana

45. Olga

46. Polina

47. Raisa

48. Rimma

49. Sasha

50. Snezhana

51. Sofia

52. Stanislava

53. Svetlana

54. Taisiya

55. Tamara

56. Tatiana or Tatyana

57. Ulyana

58. Valentina

59. Valeriya

60. Varvara

61. Vasilisa

62. Vera

63. Veronika

64. Viktoria

65. Yana

66. Yelena

67. Yelizaveta

68. Yevdokiya

69. Yevgenia

70. Yulia

71. Zhanna

72. Zinaida

73. Zlata

74. Zoya

57 Russian Boy Names

1. Afanasy

2. Aleksandr

3. Alexey or Alyosha

4. Andrey

5. Anton

6. Arkady

7. Arseny

8. Artem

9. Boris

10. Daniil

11. Denis

12. Dmitri

13. Dominik

14. Fyodor

15. Gavriil

16. Gennady

17. Georgy

18. Grigory

19. Igor

20. Ilya

21. Iosif

22. Ivan

23. Kirill

24. Konstantin

25. Leonid

26. Lev

27. Luka

28. Maksim

29. Maksimilian

30. Marat

31. Matvey

32. Mikhail

33. Nikita

34. Nikolai

35. Oleg

36. Pavel

37. Platon

38. Pyotr

39. Rodion

40. Roman

41. Rurik

42. Semyon

43. Sergey

44. Stanislav

45. Svyatoslav

46. Tikhon

47. Vadim

48. Valentin

49. Vasily

50. Veniamin

51. Viktor

52. Vladimir

53. Vsevolod

54. Vyacheslav

55. Yevgeny

56. Yuri

57. Zakhar

Which Russian baby names are your favorites? Did a familiar choice like Anastasia stand out, or did Matvey catch your attention?

To compare more names by origin, see our Ukrainian baby names, Slavic baby names, and Greek baby names, or browse the Baby Names Hub.

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Lauren Flake

Lauren Flake is a wife, mom to two girls, watercolor artist, seventh-generation Texan, and early-onset Alzheimer's daughter. She is the author and co-illustrator of two award-winning children's books for grieving preschoolers, Where Did My Sweet Grandma Go? and Where Did My Sweet Grandpa Go?, and the editor of Love of Dixie magazine. She loves green tea, dark chocolate, and collecting all things turquoise.

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