Disclaimer: This list was intended for background flavor for our roleplaying game only. The names were taken from sources listing names of the area from the Medieval period, and may show names of non-native origin. Please do not email me to complain about something like "this name isn't Czech, it's Hungarian."
Sources for these names include the Chronicle of Novgorod and the Nikonian Chronicle, as well as modern Russian names, Rüs the roleplaying game, and some I borrowed from a list posted by Alon Lischinsky.
For those Russian names that have a familiar form (used by family and close friends), this form is included in parentheses. Transcription is loose and not consistent; however, I have endeavored to always spell the first sound in genre as 'zh'.
Formal address is usually in the form of name + patronymic. The patronymic is the father's name + -ovich for men and -ovna for women, though the initial o is e following soft consonants. In Medieval times it would seem (judging from the chronicles) -ovich was actually -ovits, so for additional realism you might try using it instead.
| A | Afanasi, Agafi, Agraf, Aleksandr (Sasha), Aleksei (Alyosha), Anatoly, Andrei, Anisim, Anton, Arkady, Arseni, Averki, |
| B | Boris (Borya), Briacheslav, |
| D | Daniil, Danilo, Danislav, David, Demyan, Dmitri (Dima), Dobrynia, Dunai, |
| E | Efim, Ekim, Evgenia (Zhenya), |
| F | Feodor (Fedya), Feodosi, |
| G | Gavril (Ganya), Gennady (Zhenya), Giorgy (Yura), Gleb, Grigory (Grisha), |
| I | Igor, Ilarion, Ilya, Ioann, Ippolit, Ivan (Vanya), Ivanko, Ivats, Iziaslav, |
| K | Kapsirko, Kazimir, Kiryak, Konstantin (Kostya), Kuzma, |
| L | Leonid, Leontii, Lev, |
| M | Maksim, Mikhail (Misha), Mikifor, Mikula, Mstislav, |
| N | Nikifor, Nikita, Nikolai (Kolya), |
| O | Oleg, Osip, |
| P | Pafnuty, Pavel (Pasha), Piotr (Petya), Pozvizd, |
| R | Radko, Roman, Rostislav, Rurik, |
| S | Sadko, Sdila, Semyon, Sergei (Siryozha), Stanislav, Sviatopolk, Sviatoslav, Sudislav, |
| T | Tverdislav, |
| V | Varlam, Vasiliy (Vasya), Vasilko, Viktor (Vitya), Vladimir (Volodya/Vova), Vseslav, Vsevolod, Vyachek, Vysheslav, |
| Y | Yakim, Yakov (Yasha), Yaropolk, Yermolay, Yuri, |
| Z | Zakhary, Zavid. |
| A | Agafya, Aglaya, Aksinya (Asya), Akulina, Aleksandra (Shura), Alla, Alyona, Amalia, Anastasia (Nastya/Stasya), Anfisa, Anisya, Anna (Anya), Antonina, |
| D | Daria, Dunya, Dunyasha (Avdotya), |
| E | Ekaterina (Katya), Elena (Lena), Elizaveta, Evdokia, Evgenia (Zhenya), Evpraksia, |
| F | Faina, Fatima, Felitsata, Fyokla, |
| G | Galina (Galya), Grusha, |
| I | Irina (Arisha/Ira), Ivanna, |
| K | Katerina (Katya), Klavia, |
| L | Larisa (Lara), Lipa, Lizaveta, Lyubov, Lyudmila, |
| M | Marfa, Marfida, Marfusha, Mariya (Masha), Marya (Masha), Marina, Matriona, |
| N | Nadezhda, Nadia, Nastasia, Natalia (Natasha), Nina, |
| O | Olga (Olya), |
| P | Pelageia, Polina, |
| R | Raisa, Rufina, |
| S | Serafima, Sofiya (Sonya), Svetlana (Svetya), |
| T | Tamara (Toma), Tatyana (Tatya), |
| U | Ustinya, |
| V | Varvara (Varya), Vasilisa, Vera, |
| Y | Yulia, |
| Z | Zinaida (Zina). |
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