Modern male and female Serbian names pleasantly surprise with their diversity. They have a surprisingly rich sound and no less impressive meaning. For those who decide to follow the Serbian traditions of naming, a surprisingly rich name book is provided for the choice. It contains both full and abbreviated versions of names. Some of them are of Slavic origin, others are borrowed from. According to local law, any version of female and male Serbian names can be indicated in the passport. This circumstance gives parents almost unlimited scope for imagination.
The meaning of modern male and female Serbian names
In their meaning, Serbian names and surnames are no less diverse than in sound. Some of them denote positive, others indicate animals, plants and natural phenomena and various abstract categories. As already mentioned, many beautiful Serbian names for boys and girls are taken from the church calendar. They have religious significance. For example, Elijah means "the fortress of the Lord" and Jovana = "God is good.
Among the modern Serbian names of girls and boys, there are those that have a "protective" meaning. Our ancestors believed that they were able to drive away evil spirits and protect the child from various hardships.
List of beautiful Serbian names for boys
- Bratislava. Interpreted as "glorious brother"
- Goran. Serbian boy name meaning "mountain man"
- Acts. From the word "do". Means "industrious"
- Dragan. Interpreted as "expensive"
- Jovan. Male Serbian name which means = "God is good"
- Lazarus. From the Hebrew "God helped me"
- Lubomir. Derived from the words "love" and "peace"
- Milyan. Serbian boy name meaning "kind"
- Nemanja. Name - amulet, meaning "poor"
- Stevan. Translated into Russian means "crown"
List of beautiful Serbian names for girls
- Angela. Interpreted as "angel"
- Boyana. Serbian girl name meaning "battle"
- Gordan. Interpreted as "proud"
- Dragan. Means "beloved" / "dear"
- Militsa. Serbian female name meaning "dear"
- Willow. From the Slavic name of the tree
- Radmila. Interpreted as "sweet joy"
- Nice. Serbian girl name meaning "gorgeous"
- Snezhana. Meaning "woman of snow"
- Srebryanka. Means "silver"
The most common female and male Serbian names
- According to the results of recent years, such male Serbian names as Lazar, Luka, Marko and Stevan have become most widespread.
- In addition, many parents call their sons Jovan, Nemanja and Nikola.
- The list of popular female names is headed by Milica. She is followed by Theodora, Jovana, Iva and Yana.
Serbian female names impress with their diversity. They not only sound beautiful: each female name is filled with a special meaning and has several abbreviated versions. A feature of Serbian names is the ability to indicate any version of them in documents.
pagan origin
Serbs often gave the child a name that carried the function of "protection". It was a superstitious people, and the parents tried to protect the baby from evil spirits, calling him in a special way.
Serbian female names of that time and their meaning: Gordana (proud), Tiyana (peace), Bojdena, Boyana (battle). Girls were also called according to their personal character traits, they were given names denoting animals, plants, berries: Senka (shadow), Dzhegoda (strawberry, berry), Srebryanka (silver), Milica (sweet), Slavitsa (glorious), Vedrana (funny) , Deyana (enterprising).
Christian background
In the second half of the 19th century, Christianity came to Serbia from Byzantium. From that time on, residents had to call their children at birth only by canonical names that had a church purpose. In origin, they were mostly ancient Greek or Roman of the early Christian era.
The girls began to be called: Sofia (wisdom), Natalia, Natasha (church Christmas), Jovana (good God), Angela (angel), Militsa (sweet), Iva (from the Slavs “willow tree”), Slavna (magnificent), Valeria (strong), Snezhana (woman of snow), Yana (pardoned by God), Anna (God's mercy), and so on.
Canonical names have taken root for quite a long time among the Serbs, who are used to naming children in their native language.
After 1945, the choice of names became free. This was facilitated by the establishment of socialism throughout Serbia. At this time, names appear based on their own vocabulary.
Features of education
Serbian female names in 20% of cases are formed using the suffix "ka". In Russian, this suffix gives the word a derogatory connotation, but in Serbia it does not carry any lexical load: Zhivka, Slavyanka, Zdravka, Milinka. In female names, there are also suffixes "ina", "ana", "itsa" (Snezhana, Yasmina, Slavitsa, Lilyana, Zoritsa). All Serbian female names end in "a".
Girls who were born in noble families were given names consisting of two roots - Dregoslav, Radmila, Negoslav, Negomir. But they were rare, since the compound name was given mainly to a man.
Modernity
The most common beautiful Serbian female names in our time: Teodora, Jovana, Iva, Yana, Tatiana, Sarah, Katarina, Sofia, Maria, Angela. Some of them are borrowed when naming daughters in other countries.
Serbs (Serb. Srbi) are a Slavic people living on the south side, representatives of this people live in Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Croatia, Herzegovina and other countries. Their total population is about 12-13 million people. Their main religion is Orthodoxy. The national language is Serbian. Ethnographic groups of Serbs are divided, in total, according to the dialects of the Serbian language. The largest group are the Shtokavian Serbs. There are also Gorani and other ethnographic groups. The history of Serbia begins to count its beginning from the VI century, from the moment the ancient Slavs began to settle in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula.
It is said that many names in ancient times were derived from what families processed or made. Thus, one can understand that if the family grew tomatoes, then their names became slowly, for example from paradajze, but Abit is different - so they think .... Some names originated because the ancestors grew flowers, for example lilacs.
Suffix in Serbian surnames
Serbian surnames mostly, but not always, have a suffix in their composition. Under the suffix they mean the endings of the surname, for example: IC in Latin and - ић in Cyrillic. Surname endings usually mean "son", like in Scotland they use "Mac" and so on. Such a system is used not only by the Serbs, but also in common with other Slavic peoples. There is some estimate that about 2/3 of all Serbs use this system with their surnames. As a result of this, many peer-to-peer surnames are not related between families.
Very often used surnames: Nikolic, Jovanovic and Petrovich.
Serbian immigrants to the US or other English countries are usually -ich.
Most of the Serbian surnames with the suffix - IC (ITJ / IPA /, Cyrillic - ић). It is most often transcribed as -IC. In history, Serbian names were often transcribed with a phonetic ending, -zud or -ich. This form of education is often associated with Serbs right up to the beginning of the 20th century: from here one can identify Milutin Milanković, mostly called, for historical reasons: Milutin Milanković.
IC suffix which is used in Slavic diminutives. Thus, the Serbian surname Petrich means little Peter.
Most Serbian surnames are maternal (mother) or paternal (Father) occupational, but also surnames can be derived from personal qualities.
Other joint surname suffixes are -v or -ov which are Slavic possessive suffixes, so Nikola's son now becomes Nikolin, Petrov's son Peter, and Jovan's son Jovanov. Both suffixes are often combined.
The most common surnames are Petrovich, Nikolic and Jovanovic.
List of Serbian surnames:
Aleksic, Adzovic, Andjelic , Anastasijevic Old Andjelkovic
Babić Balasevic Bajic, Banovic Blagojevich Belic Blasevic Bogic Bogdanovich Bogicevic Božović Bošković Brkić Bulatović Brnovic Buturovic
Celebic Cavoski Ckrebic Cicic Cicic Cubrilovic Coslovic Curuvia Cvijic Cvetkovic
Djapic Djokovic Danicic Davidovic Djordjevic Djorovic Djuric Djurisic Djukanovic Djukic Djurdjevic Djuretic Dobrica Dokic Drac Drljaca Drulovic Dragomanovic Draškovic Dudukovic
Erkocevic
Gojkovic Garasanin Gavrilovich Goranovic Grachanin Grba Gorkic Govedarica Grol Grujic Grlic Grkovic Grujicic
Hrnjak Haravan
Jeftanovic Jeftic Janic Jankovic Jevtic Jevremovic Jovanovic Jovic Jigovic Jokanovic Jovovic Jugovic
Kandich Karadzic Kadijevic Kajosevic Karkunica Kojic
Ljotic Lekovic Lilic Lukovic
Maricic Marinkovic Mandaric Maric Markovic Mihajlovic Mijatovic Martic Mihajlovic Milankovic Milatovic Milkovic Milosevic Miletic Milic Milutinovic Minich Mitevic Mladicha Mirkovic Misic Mladjenovic Moljevic Mrja
Nemanjic Nikezic Nacuk Nedic Nikolic Nusic
Ognenovic Ognjenovic Obradovic Obrenovic Ogrijenovic Opacic Ostoich
Pasic Pejovic Panika Pantelic Peric Perisic Petrovich Plavsic Perovic Peza Pokrajac Popov Princip Prodanovic Popovic Pribicevic Prpos Pupovac
rasic radanovic
Savićević Sekulic Santrac Saveljic Seselj Sibincic Skerlic Slivančanin Simić Simovic Solevic Spasic Srbovic Srebov Spasoevich Srbic Srskic Stambolica Stanković Stanovcic Stanišić Stanjevic Stefanovich Stević Stojanovic Stojkovic Stojadinovic Stojadinovic Stojsic Stolić Suljic Svabic Subašić Sujic Svetozar
Todorovic Tadic Telacevic Tucovic Tukovic
Uskokovic Utjesenovic Udovichki Unkovic Uzunovic
Veselin Vidovich Vasich Vasilievich Vukmanovic Vukovich Vukassinov Vujica
Zimojic Zivo (J) Zebic Zecevic inovic Zivkovic Zukic Zhuplyanin Zorich Zujovic Zuzoric
Serbs are for all mankind. The contribution of the Serbs played a significant role in the development of science and art. Prominent figures among scientists are Nikola Tesla, Mihailo Pupin, Ruđer Boskovic, Jovan Cvijić, Milyutin Milanković and Mileva Marić, famous mathematicians Jovan Karamata, Mihailo Petrovich, and Djuro Kurepa; renowned composers Stevan Mokranjac and Joseph Runjanin; famous authors Dositej Obradovic, Milos Crnjanski, and Ivo Andrić, the prolific inventor Ognislav Kostovi.
Most of the Croatian Serbs were concentrated in the regions of Banija, Kordun, Lika, Northern Dalmatia, Western and Eastern Slavonia, Baranya and Srem. Smaller groups of Serbs can also be found elsewhere in Slavonia and Dalmatia, Bilogora, Moslavina, Žumberak, Gorski Kotar and Istria, can also be found in all major cities in Croatia. Serbs in 2001 four counties with a representation of Serbs over 10%: Vukovar-Srem county, Sisak-Moslavina county, Karlovac county.
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The adoption of Christianity, which came from Byzantium in the second half of the 9th century, entailed the obligatory nature of only canonical names, that is, limited to Orthodox saints. By origin, these names are ancient Greek or adopted from the languages of the eastern part of the Roman Empire in the era of early Christianity. Canonical names in Serbian anthroponymy have been competing for many centuries with names from the native language (Vuk "wolf"); the princes strengthened compound names, in the second component of which the most frequent is the world and somewhat inferior to it in terms of frequency - glory.
Often there were "protective" names dictated by superstition, that is, according to the ideas of the Serbs, designed to drive away evil spirits so that they would not kidnap the child and harm him. The centuries-old domination of the Ottoman Empire in Serbia (after the loss of independence as a result of the defeat in the Battle of Kosovo in 1389) not only failed to destroy the original Serbian names, but, on the contrary, unwittingly contributed to their transformation into one of the means protecting the unity and identity of the Serbs. Some names of Turkic-speaking origin included in Serbian anthroponymy (Karanfila "carnation") do not exceed the usual number of borrowings during long-term close contact with the foreign-speaking population.
The establishment in 1945 of the socialist system on the territory of Serbia abolished the church ban on non-canonical names; the choice of names became free. Many new names appeared, mainly based on the Serbian vocabulary; the transition of informal naming forms to main names is especially frequent. Borrowings are also not uncommon as from the name of the fraternal peoples of Yugoslavia (for example, the names Iegan, Negosh, Negota, Negatich, Negach, Negaye, female Negotinka can be formed.
Suffixes form a kind of paradigm, which can be illustrated by the example of male names:
Bratota Brother Bratun Bratuy Bratokhna Bratoje Milota Milos Milun Miluy Milohna Miloje Job Radosh Rayun Raduy Radohna Radoje.
The most common suffixes for female names: -ka (covers 20% of all Serbian names; differs from Russian in that it does not carry any derogatory connotation at all (Zhivka, Zdravka, Slavyanka), -ina (Yasmina, Angelina), -itsa (Milica, Zoritsa ), -ana (Lilyana, Snezhana).
Numerous compound names. They are worn by a third of all men (Miroslav, Radomir); in women, they are half as common (Negomir, Negoslav).
The ten most common male names: Dragan, Zoran, Milan, Slobodan, Miroslav, Milodrag, Dushan, Radomir, Petar, Vladimir. But their frequency is variable and different in different regions.
All female names end in -a (in the Russian transmission - also in the spelling -iya, which conveys the pronunciation -iya), male names have a solid consonant in the final, a small amount - iot and a slightly larger number - a vowel.
Numerous derived forms are extremely widespread in the sphere of everyday communication. For example, from the main form of the male name Alexander, such derivatives as Sandro, Sanda, Sandal, Sande, Sanko, Lesan, Leko, Lela, Lesa, Lesko, Lesander, Lecha, Leiko, Lekan, Tsane, Tsaka, Tsanda are possible.
Serbian anthroponymy is characterized by an abundance of nicknames.
Surnames are required for all. Many Serbs have surnames ending in -ich.
In the Russian transmission, the spelling -ich is accepted.
There are significantly fewer surnames with -ich in Vojvodina - half of all surnames in Kosovo-Metohija. In a number of localities, the entire population, in addition to the official surname, has a parallel one used by all residents within the village.
The modern Serb name book has a rich name-forming suffix: there are more than 50 suffixes that form personal names. So, for example, from the base it can.
Many people like Serbian names - unusual, sonorous, "speaking". We feel in them closeness to the common Slavic origins, pagan strength, something almost lost in our culture. But times change, and language and culture change with them. What names are popular in Serbia today? Which Slavic Serbian names have withstood the onslaught of globalization? What do Serbs call children at the beginning of the 21st century?
Historical Serbian names
It is known that in the past a name was often given to a newborn in order to further protect him. In order for a weak child to survive, he was often given the name Vuk (“Wolf”), since it was believed that witches eat children, and they would not dare to attack a wolf. Protective nature in ancient times had names with the basis "alive": Dabizhiv (let him be alive), Zhivan, Zhivana, Zhivko. Vuk Karadzic writes that "Zhivko" was often used in conversation to refer to any boy at all. For example, regardless of the name of the child, his mother could be asked at a meeting “How is your Zhivko?”
Names from the verb "stati" (stand up, stop) Stanimir, Stanislav, Stanoye, Stana were given in the past so that children in a large family would no longer be born, that's enough.
A large number of names with the basis "rad" (labor) - Radoslav, Radomir, Radoje, Radojica - and "mil" - Milos, Milan, Milica - shows what positive qualities the Serbs wanted to see in their children.
Popular male Serbian names
Now in Serbia, parents most often give their children Christian names. So, a study conducted in Kragujevac in the first decade of the 21st century showed that the most popular male names (in descending order of popularity):
- Nikola
- Lazar
- Stephen
- Aleksandar
- Marco
- Alexa
- Nemanja
- Jovan
- Philip
- velko
- Milos
- George
- Petar
- Mikhailo
- fiery
- Matia
- Dushan
- Bogdan
- David
- Paul
- Milan
- Strahinya
Of the Slavic names on this list, only Nemanja, Velko, Milos, Dusan, Bogda, Milan and Strakhinya.
Popular female Serbian names
The most popular female names in Serbia now are:
- Militsa
- Angela
- Jovana
- Maria
- Kristina
- Anastasia
- Katarina
- Alexandra
- Theodora
- Nevena
- Tiyana
- Helena
- Sofia
- Tamara
- Emilia
- Ivana
- Nikolina
- Nataliya
- Nadia (Nadja)
With the exception of the most popular Slavic name Militsa, only Nevena and Tiyana are here. In addition to a purely Christian origin, the influence of the Russian language - Tamara and Nadia, or Western European languages \u200b\u200b- Emilia is noticeable.
The weakening of the popularity of Slavic names is especially noticeable in two categories: among the popular names there are no Slavic names with two stems (Vladimir, Miroslav, etc.) and names with the stem "rad" (Radomir, Radoslav, etc.).
The popularity of names of Christian origin can be explained by two trends: firstly, the return of interest in Orthodox traditions and Serbian history, and secondly, the fact that these names are international, which makes life easier in today's globalized society.
