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Origin of names

There are a lot of names in the world. They have different origin.

Some English names have

Arabic origin , for example Amber, Ali, Mohammed...),

Celtic (Brian, Dylan, Kermit, Tara...),

French (Alison, Bruce, Olivia...),

German (Charles, Leonard, Richard, William...), Greek ( Angel, Christopher, George, Selina...), Italianain (Bianca, Donna, Mia...),

Latin (Cordelia, Diana, Patrick, Victoria...), Scandinavia n (Brenda, Dustin, Eric...),

o ld English (Edward, Oscar, Wayne...),

Persian (Esther, Jasmine, Roxanne...),

from Sanscrit – an ancient Indian language (Beryl, Opal, Uma...),

Slavic (Boris, Nadia, Vera...),

Arabic (Dolores, Linda, Rio...) and Tirkish (Ayla...) names.

Let’s look through some of them.

Slavic names

e.g.: Vera , Mila , Svante , Boris , Vladimir , Mirko , Laszlo , Casimir , Wenzel , Milena , Estanislao , Vlad , Nadia , Mircea , Bronislovas , Radu , Vesna , Wanda, Ladislao, Bogdan, etc.

Celtic names

Celtic tribes lived on the territory of modern Scotland, Ireland, Wales. Meaning of their names was often connected with realities of life.

For example, Onghua meant “very strong”, Neil- “a champion”, Seilan- “a vinner”.

German names

German names reflect personal qualities of people.

For example, Adolf means “ a noble wolf”, Karl- “brave”.

English names

Every year American site Social Security Online (http://www.ssa.gov) publishes a list of the most popular male and female English names. There is a list of such popular names for the last three years.

English male names:

1 David

2 John

3 Tomas

4 William

5 Andrew

6 Jack

7 Jim

English female names:

• 1Emily
• 2Isabella
• 3Emma
• 4 Emily
• 5 Olivia
• 6 Sophia
• 7 Elizabeth
• 8 Samantha
• 9 Natalie 1
• 10 Natalie
• 11 Hannah

Origin of the name Yaroslav

Name Yaroslav has ancient Slavic origin. It means “desperate in his glory”.

There were a lot of famous people which had such name. For example,

Yaroslav the Wise - Grand Prince of Kiev

Jaroslav Osmomysl - Prince Galitsky

Jaroslav Hasek - Czech writer