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01/29/07
Russian Names: Alexei to Zinaida, And Their Nicknames
Posted by : Virginia M. Citrano in Russia Adoption Blog at 06:15 am , 391 words, 813 views
Categories: Culture, Names
Categories: Culture, Names
My colleagues over at the Crisis Pregnancy Blog recently took a look at the top U.S. baby names for 2006, thanks to Baby Center's annual list.
Though I favor traditional names over trendy ones, I think lists like this can have value when you are weighing what to name a newborn. But if you are adopting internationally, you're adopting someone who already has a name. And if you're adopting from Russia, that name is likely to be long, hard to pronounce, and accompanied by what seems to be an endless string of nicknames. And if you adopt an older child from... more
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