I don’t need such a list, but something that struck me—so I thought I’d ask you to confirm if I’m right—is that some of the “surnames” in @GoalieDad’s list, like ‘Abramova’ and ‘Galipova’, would actually be the female versions, even though the forenames requested are male; I presume the correct male versions would be ‘Abramov’ and ‘Galipov’ etc…
Absolutely would love a list. Had russian characters in a story I wrote, but did you names gathered from the internet and my list was small. I will message you.
That’s right, those are female forms. If you deal with Slavic names, you actually need four lists: two for names, two for surnames. Alas, Scrivener name generator is not prepared for such a situation. That’s how I work around that:
Btw. “Shurochka” is a female pet form of “Alexandra”, and a rather dated one at that. Male form would be “Shurik”. It’s used mainly by people from the 60-70-ies, I have not heard them being used by young people today.
I just remembered having once discussing this particular set of names (Alexander/Alexandra) and its derivatives on the NaNWriMo forum.
Thanks for confirming. My problem with names is re Chinese names and the Western insistence of putting forename first, when in Chinese the family name comes first (to me cultural imperialism)… which sadly, quite a number of Chinese go along with. There are a few double-character family names and many people have single character personal names.
Also, as pretty much any character/word in the dictionary can be used as a personal name, and transcription masks the many, many homophones, not adhering to the Chinese order is asking for confusion.
So in the following few examples, which is the personal name, which the family name?
Yi Situ vs Situ Yi
Wen Lei vs Lei Wen,
Ouyang Xiu vs Xiu Ouyang
Li Meng vs Meng Li
Seconded. I’m working on something that deals with Europe as a whole across various periods (Russia included) and would love some male and female names for the Russian secondary characters.
I’d have used Gemini, but asking a native is always better.
I now have the transliterated lists of Russian names at hand, so I can share. Just keep in mind that initially I made them for my own purpose, so they are modern names that are in use right now. If you need historical names, it might take more effort.