#Slavic names

[shiranuieditorial]

Light & Airy ✨

Personal name ideas for you, your characters, pets, future kids, or just for the sake of the discussion! All free to use! 🤗

⚠️ Disclaimer: Genders mentioned below are only intended as guidance; not strict rules I’m ordering anyone to follow.

Feminine-leaning given names:

艾咏 Aiyong

Amanda

Anya

April

Brianne

Cherry

Demah

Elara

Essie

Farah

Feriyal

日桜 Hio

Iin

Kaia

和咲 Kazusa

Kirana

Laila

Lorelei

Mehelia

味蕾 Mirai

Pia

Rihanna

流実 Rumi

Sari

文麗 Wenli

Yanti

弓杏 Yua

Zoulah

Gender-neutral & unisex given names:

Aria

亜早 Asa

白赫 Baihe

Dara

Dewey

Efren

Emre

Foxy

芽生 Gao

Hallie

Harper

輝羽 Hwiu

Irama

Lucky

Mahaka

Morning

Noa

Ora

Ovie

Pom

Roya

Salewyn

Sherrel

Tinne

Venera

怡翎 Yiling

Zephyr

茲棋 Ziqi

Masculine-leaning given names:

André

Chaim

Diler

演二 Enji

Hapsara

Helio

Iago

Iriawan

Karim

Kindi

Kopong

Lev

丸応 Maruo

Neo

Nuwa

Owain

René

Riady

Soren

Tasafi

Thamin

Vier

Wayan

希明 Ximing

Yahya

Yansen

Ziko

Zulkifli

Okay, okay, okay... Explanation time!

🌬️ So, these names I’ve compiled sound or feel soft, light, and airy to me, regardless of what their respective etymologies mean.

🎐 It’s all about the vibes with this one! In my head, I’m taking a moment to feel the breeze in my face…

Who says we have to be so serious and formal and academic all the time? 🤷🏽

Let’s try to have some light-hearted fun with this name bank!

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🗺️ There’s a variety of cultures and languages featured here. The Sinitic ones in particular are:

🇨🇳 艾咏 Aiyong — “mugwort chanting; mugwort singing”

🇯🇵 日桜 Hio — “sunny cherry”

🇯🇵 和咲 Kazusa — “harmonious blooming”

🇯🇵 味蕾 Mirai — “taste bud”, lit. “flavour” + “flower bud”

🇯🇵 流実 Rumi — “flowing into reality”

🇨🇳 文麗 Wenli — “prettiness of culture and literature”

🇯🇵 弓杏 Yua — “bow and apricot”

🇯🇵 亜早 Asa — “inferior morning”

🇨🇳 白赫 Baihe — “white radiance; white eminence”

🇯🇵 芽生 Gao — “shooting forth sprouts”

🇰🇷 輝羽 (휘우) Hwiu — “bright splendour feather”

🇨🇳 怡翎 Yiling — “plumes of rejoice”

🇨🇳 茲棋 Ziqi — “this chess”

🇯🇵 演二 Enji — “performance two”

🇯🇵 丸応 Maruo — “round answer”

🇨🇳 希明 Ximing — “hopeful brightness”

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Curious about any other name’s meaning and origin? 🤔

Don’t worry! I had researched everything before putting them in the list. It’s a habit at this point. 👌🏼

Send me an ask or comment below any curiosity and I’ll respond! 👇🏼

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👀 Let me know which of these given names caught your eye? Do you know anyone with any of these names? Do you agree or disagree with my personal interpretation of “light and airy” vibes?

[queersrus]

hi , could we please get names like beowulf? preferrably masc but any is fine — thank you in advance whether you do or don't & have a nice day !! ^^

odin, orion, oliver

atticus, ares, atlas, apollo, adonis, alexander/alexandre

loki, lex

krios

eros

drusus

bahadur, bridin

justinian

halfdan/halfdanr, hector, hunter

nexus

reaper

theodor

ciaran, chi

milo, malak

pepper, phaedre/phaedra

viridis, viridius

sorry if none of these work

[beatrixacs]

slavic names of star wars characters?

Hello there!

I am not sure if you are asking me about already existent characters in the SW universe, anon, where I can answer that the only character that comes to my mind with sort-of-a-slavic name is Slavin, an Imperial officer from Rebels, or if you mean my suggestion of slavic names for Star Wars characters...

If it's the latter, I'd suggest these:

Female Names

Bisera

Brana

Darina

Elka

Jasna

Ivelina

Lada

Lara

Mila

Nadia

Nevena

Vera

Zlata

Zora

Zoriana

Male Names

Bohdan

Bronimir

Dobroslav

Darko

Goran

Hviezdoslav

Lech

Mladen

Nenad

Orlin

Prodan

Radoslav

Strogbor

Vlad

Some of these male names have a female version by adding -a, like Bohdana, Dobroslava, Radoslava...

Those are just some names that I feel are good to use for SW characters. I purposefully omitted all the names with letters like "ž", "š", "č, "ř" and similar variants in other Slavic languages.

[ellie-makes-mbs]

name moodboard for “natália” for @bibliophile221b

[leroibobo]

etz hayyim (“tree of life”) synagogue in chania, crete, greece. the building dates to the 14th-15th centuries, and was originally a venetian catholic church. it was acquired by chania's jewish community and converted into a synagogue in the late 17th century. chania's jews were deported due to the holocaust in 1944, after which the building remained abandoned until restoration in the 1990s.

romaniote jews are the oldest jewish community in europe and one of the oldest in the world, thought to have lived in and around present day greece since before 70 ce. they have their own liturgy that is unrelated to the more commonly used european ones (ashkenazic and sephardic).

[i-like-to-look-at-your-back]

Some of my new Inktobers

[arch-angel-o]

This is his equivalent of an emo phase

[totally-not-an-awkward-okapi]

While Laika was the name popularized around the world, she had many nicknames including Kudryavka (Russian for Little Curly), Zhuchka (Little Bug), and Limonchik (Little Lemon).

[wszczebrzyszynie]

I don’t know if this has already been asked, but do your characters have deeper meaning behind their names? Or you just name them based on vibes?

I just name them using names i like! Meaning wise they almost never fit. That being said some names are a bit more deliberate; Beatrycze for example is an uncommon name and i chose it specifically because of how rare and distinctive it is (its one of the very few girls names that dont end with "a") as Tryczs chosen name. It fits her more eccentric personality a lot

[hirkyy]

Months in Ukrainian

january - січень (síchen'), related to "сікти" ("to cut"), referring to cutting down trees in preparation of agricultural land

february - лютий (lyútyy), "cruel", "fierce", referring to the fierce, harsh winter weather and cold

march - березень (bérezen'), related to "береза" ("birch tree")

april - квітень (kvíten'), related to "квітка" ("flower")

may - травень (tráven'), related to "трава" ("grass")

june - червень (chérven'), related to "червоний" ("red"), referring to the manufacturing of red dye from insect larvae

july - липень (lýpen'), related to "липа" ("linden tree")

august - серпень (sérpen'), related to "серп" ("sickle"), referring to harvest

september - вересень (véresen'), related to "верес" ("heather flower")

october - жовтень (zhóvten'), related to "жовтий" ("yellow"), referring to yellow autumn foliage

november - листопад (lystopád), "leaf fall"

december - грудень (hrúden'), related to "груда" ("heap"), referring to heaps of frozen soil

[eri-pl]

Those of you who are Polish or linguistically similar (Czech, idk what more) probably noticed, but Boromir would be a perfectly legit Medieval Polish (Slavic in general?) name, meaning more or less "peace in the forest". Faramir is a bit trickier and needs some anachronism, but "fara" is a type of a church, so "peace in the church", or to make it more setting-appropriate, "peace in the hall".

Let's translate those back to Sindarin using that one instruction for name-making. So, as the wise the dictionary says:

forest = taur hall = There's nothing I can find in sindarin, for etymological reasons let's go with gobel which is walled town / house, makes sense in the context peace = îdh

Surprisingly there's nothing to tweak according to the instruction, so Taurídh and his younger brother Gobelídh (both sound so dumb…)

…Now I need a fic where Boromir and Faramir go on a stealth mission using those as their fake names.

[naarinn]

He killed my otp(Yogurt) I hate him so much

+ I miss my husband </3

[cosmosnout]

Dimitri would be an incredible dad I’m so convinced of it

[tiredspacedragon]

An idea that has the potential to be very culturally insensitive if handled wrong but possibly quite fun if done right is a Bionicle Human AU where everyone's ethnicity/cultural background is determined by the origin of their names. Naturally this would make most of the early characters Maori or Rotuman, but from there it would branch out into gems such as Welsh Ehrye, German Orkahm, either British or French Dume, and my personal favourite, all of the Glatorian and Agori being time-displaced Romans, with the exception of Kiina, who is a Celt who got dragged along for the ride and is deeply unhappy about it.

[waters-and-the-wilde]

anyway new scenario i am cherishing as a treat for me is that the same night juno was using his coping skills to not drink away his feelings, nureyev got scooped at the spaceport and then subsequently dropped off at the lighthouse by ruby, and in the process of name reveal/family reunion/etc he lets buddy and vespa get him drunk (in what is probably the first time he's been actually intoxicated in lo these twenty odd years)

crucial elements: vespa is now capable of getting drunk, and buddy remains not capable of getting drunk, i don't think nureyev has worked his way up to the mortifying ordeal of both of them being sober while he is drunk and it's already mortifying enough that buddy's gonna interrogate him about his feelings which he is now working on acknowledging that he has. vespa is a.) in a secure and relaxed enough frame of mind to tolerate being drunk around nureyev, largely bc b.) buddy is sober and has the upper hand if they're actually wrong about him even now, c.) 'i don't wanna deal with your shit sober anyway'. and furthermore both of them are only going to be able to tolerate being impaired at all knowing that at least one person in the room has Got This because they are both thinking about ambushes at all times

(it takes him the entire rest of the next day to get to hyperion city and feeling presentable enough to go see juno bc his ass is NOT used to having a hangover)

[nikoisme]

Do you have any concepts for what the river wives look like? Not necessarily as drawings, but maybe just some descriptions? I'm really curious 👀

Is this a story with some Slavic (or some other) mythology vibes or a more general/mainstream fantasy kind of thing?

I actually do have some concepts!!

This is the general idea, so they may change in the future (ignore the silly faces pffft). Their designs are nothing really special, but that was my whole point - i wanted it to look really casual. I'm not sure if it's noticeable, but the river wife's dress is supposed to kind of "fade" into water! I based her off of naiads and some fairies from slavic mythology. Otherwise there isn't really anything else revolving around a specific mythology. The story is set in modern times! So the world is the same, just with the addition that there are some nature spirits (rivers, forests, mountains etc) :D