[Vicki H]

Just for fun, what was your child/children's Russian name if you did not keep it.

Alex was Andrey.

Vicki

[Waiting4Skip]

Skip was Vadim - Had we not wanted a Jr. I would have kept it as his middle name....

What I find interesting is that the children are almost NEVER called by their real name, but a "nickname". Skip was always referred to as Vadik, or Vadya

Judy

[Vicki H]

I know ,they hardly ever called him Andrey they called him Sasha.


Vicki

[jtraut28]

I'm keeping my daughter's name, Alina. But they call her Alinka...so endearing
J

[ATwinkleofHope]

Our little girl's Russian name is Galina, and we decided to keep it as her middle name. She will be Brianne Galina.


-Jo


-Still waiting for a court date.....

[bratgirl]

Hayden's Russian name was Kirill. Helena's was Kristina. We kept their names as a second middle name. They are named our grandmothers and grandfathers.

Helena Lucille Kristina
Hayden Frederick Kirill

[JackandJane]

Jordan's was Sergei Victorovich. We kept Sergei in the middle.

[GCS]

Sam was Danil - always called Danilla (rhymes with Vanilla)
Sophia was Valentina

[Abdulina]

Irina- Irina
Max- Murat
Yana- Yana
Alex- Sasha(alexander)

Child to be in a few weeks(not from Russia) is named Bojan. We're going back and forth with the name.

Stephanie.

[Dobby]

Roman was Roman Mikhailovich. We kept Roman, and his new middle name is my father's (Leonard). Funny about nicknames - the orph. staff always called him "Roma". Why just a shortened name, I always wondered. But we've found ourselves doing it too!

[papedge]

our son was boris we changed it to emery

[ahnasmom]

Alex was Dimitri, called Dima.
Arianna was Liliya, called Liliya (kept it as her middle name).

[magnet]

Michael was Anton - they called him Antoshka. Anton is also my father's name, so we kept it as his middle name.

[jenn13]

Ivan and we named him Jack Ivan but still call him by his russian nickname "Vanya"

Nikolai and we named him Anthony Nikolai but still call him by his nickname "Kolya"

Jenn

[kimber413]

Kaitlin was Alyona, and we kept that as a second middle name. Her name is Kaitlin Alexandra Alyona. She'll be 15 before she can spell all that.