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Russian names started only as a given name, adding the patronymic around the 10th century, and finally the surname only in the late 15th or early 16th century. The surname did not become common, in fact, until the 18th century. | Russian names started only as a given name, adding the patronymic around the 10th century, and finally the surname only in the late 15th or early 16th century. The surname did not become common, in fact, until the 18th century. | ||
==Given Names== | |||
Eastern Slavic parents select a given name for a newborn child. Most first names in East Slavic languages originate from two sources: | |||
*Eastern Orthodox Church tradition | |||
*native pre-Christian Slavic lexicons<b> | |||
Almost all first names are single. Doubled first names (as in, for example, French, like Jean-Luc) are very rare and from foreign influence. Most doubled first names are written with a hyphen: Mariya-Tereza. | |||
==For Further Reading== | ==For Further Reading== | ||