Last Names

The 20 most common Russian surnames (from the European part of Russia, as calculated by Balanovska et al., 2006,[24] ):
Смирнов (Smirnov, 1.61%) - "quiet man's"
Иванов (Ivanov, 1.30%) - "John's"
Кузнецов (Kuznetsov, 0.90%) - "smith's"
Попов (Popov, 0.79%) - "priest's"
Соколов (Sokolov, 0.73%) - "falcon's"
Лебедев (Lebedev, 0,65%) - "swan's"
Козлов (Kozlov, 0,58%) - "he-goat's"
Новиков (Novikov, 0,54%) - "novik's" (novik - a teenager on military service who comes from a noble, boyar, or cossack family in Russia of 16th-18th centuries).
Морозов (Morozov, 0.53%) - "frost's"
Петров (Petrov, 0.44%) - "Peter's"
Волков (Volkov, 0.44%) - "wolf's"
Соловьёв (Solovyov, 0.44%) - "nightingale's"
Васильев (Vasilyev, 0.42%) - "Basil's"
Зайцев (Zaytsev, 0.41%) - "hare's"
Павлов (Pavlov, 0.39%) - "Paul's"
Семёнов (Semyonov, 0,35%) - "Simeon's"
Голубев (Golubev, 0,32%) - "pigeon's"
Виноградов (Vinogradov, 0.32%) - "grape's"
Богданов (Bogdanov, 0.31%) - "Bogdan's" (Bogdan - a Slavic given name)
Воробьёв (Vorobyov, 0.30%) - "sparrow's"
Russian surnames may originally denote "son of" or "serf of". For surnames ending with "ov" or "in", there is an "-a" feminine ending. Thus, for example, "Ivanova" means "belonging to John" or "John's daughter".
The Russian equivalent of "Smith, Jones, and Brown" (that is, the generic most popular surnames) is Иванов, Петров, Сидоров, or "Johnson, Peterson, and Sidorson". The last of these, Sidorov - "of Sidor" is actually not a very common surname at all, while Sidor as a given

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First Names