Russian Forenames

[Alina Israeli]

Unfortunately he stopped at 1965. Most of the Ivans are our grand- 
children generation. If you scroll down to Russia, you will see that  
Ivan is #3 for Moscow and St. Petersburg among the names given to  
babies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_given_names#Male_names_3

There is another interesting way to get a sample of youths of let's  
say 15-25 years of age, that is the generation of our students: it is  
to look at the names of the competitors of the latest figure skating  
competition (or the previous one).

Let's take men, for ex.

Мужчины

Место	Имя	Город	Сумма
баллов	SP	FS
1	Евгений Плющенко	Санкт-Петербург	271.59	1	1
2	Сергей Воронов	Санкт-Петербург	240.01	2	4
3	Артём Бородулин	Москва	234.92	3	2
4	Константин Меньшов	Санкт-Петербург	228.71	4	3
5	Денис Леушин	Москва	217.21	6	5
6	Иван Третьяков	Москва	215.68	5	6
7	Артём Григорьев	Москва	197.49	7	8
8	Гордей Горшков	Санкт-Петербург	193.83	11	7
9	Никита Михайлов	Москва	192.96	9	10
10	Марк Шахматов	Москва	187.91	12	11
11	Владимир Успенский	Москва	184.18	10	13
12	Сергей Добрин	Москва	183.87	8	14
13	Артур Гачинский	Санкт-Петербург	179.99	14	12
14	Артур Дмитриев	Санкт-Петербург	179.51	17	9
15	Александр Успенский	Москва	174.04	16	15
16	Станислав Ковалёв	Москва	166.68	13	16
17	Жан Буш	Челябинск	162.18	15	17
18	Константин Милюков	Казань	141.96	18	18

Forget about Жан, he is definitely an aberration, but two Arturs and  
two Artems are not. And yes, there is an Ivan there.

The whole list is here: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%83_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8E_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%85_2010

AI

Oct 19, 2010, в 9:37 AM, John Dunn написал(а):

>
> Finally, the effect of fashion can be seen with Shchetinin's figures  
> for the name Ivan after 1880:
> 1880-90: 13.6%
> 1908-16: 24.6%
> 1922-28: 1.85%
> 1932-38: 1.13%
> 1941-49: 0.85%
> 1951-58: 0.7%
> 1961-65: 0.6%
> Which explains why I have met very few people called Ivan.
>

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu





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