On the territory of the former USSR and the current Russian Federation, citizens liked to give their born children unusual, often frightening names. In the days of the Soviet Union, parents often used abbreviations to name a minor in honor of any holiday, event, sphere, person. Until now, you can meet people with the names of Vladlen (Vladimir Lenin), Dazdraperma (Long live the first of May), Kim (Communist Youth International), Vector (Great Communism triumphs), Karmiya (Red Army), etc. Today it is forbidden to give children strange, difficult to pronounce or unusual names according to Federal Law number 94.
What is a law?
Over the past ten to fifteen years, the problem of the names that parents gave their children has grown more and more. Because of the complete freedom of choice and because of the creation of fictional nicknames in computer games, the generation that had matured and had children began to invent incredible names for their children. Officials from the State Thoughts thought about this unconditional parental right.
The loudest case is when parents gave their child the name BOC rVF 260602. This is an abbreviation that stands for "Biological Object Man of the Voronin-Frolov family, born on June 26, 2002." For the first years of his life, the minor did not understand why adults are surprised when they hear his name, but as he got a little older, he began to suffer because of this. He was teased by other children, it was inconvenient to dictate his own name to someone, etc.
Parents began to add numbers, signs, curses, titles, abbreviations to the names of their own children, to name children after fictional characters in TV shows, books or films. There were also several cases in Russia when parents named the child Lucifer.
Up-to-date information on amendments to Federal Law No. 58
To abolish cases when parents come up with inappropriate names for children in order to protect the rights of children and allow them to defend themselves against nicknames that offend their honor, a special bill was put forward by the State Duma (namely, Valentin Petrenko). The law was adopted and its information was added to the Federal Law on civil acts. states, in Art. number 18. According to this article, the registration authorities have the right to refuse persons when choosing an inappropriate name.
Familiarize yourself with the main provisions of Federal Law No. 143
The Federal Law on Amendments to Article 58 of the RF IC and Article 18 of the Federal Law on Civil Status Acts was adopted by the State Duma on April 21, 2017, and approved by the Federation Council on April 26, 2017. The law contains two articles and controls and regulates the amendment of the relevant articles to abolish the right of parents to choose any name for their own child.
In the new Article 58 of the Family Code of the Russian Federation, the first paragraph lists restrictions that cannot be used when naming a minor. If the parents refuse to change the name to a more acceptable one, they will be denied registration of the child and will be liable. The second part of this article contains information that the surname of a minor must necessarily correspond to the surname of one of the parents. A double surname through a hyphen is allowed, but on the condition that all full-born children of this family will have such a surname. Any other changes in the surname are also strictly prohibited.
Federal Law 94 also amends Article 18 of the Federal Law on civil acts. states, which describes information on the registration of names and surnames of newborn babies in maternity hospitals.
What names are banned in Russia?
The new law on baby names provides citizens with a list of restrictions and choices.
List of prohibited characters, signs and letters in the name of a minor:
- Any numbers, code elements, program values, any numbers, dates or numbers. As an example, when registering a nickname in a computer game, the date of birth is added to the name (Irina2403, Alexander 111, etc.);
- Any phrases or words that offend the child or the citizens around him, curses, obscenities, words that have an ambiguous meaning, etc.;
- Punctuation marks. It is permissible to use a hyphen once, like Anna - Maria, Lisa - Veronica, other punctuation marks are strictly prohibited;
- Titles, ranks or status such as Prince or Earl are also expressly prohibited from being used in this area.
Some provisions of the described law are going to be abolished. Abbreviations in the described area have been used for a long time and the population is used to them, so this paragraph of the law will be canceled. This category of abbreviations has been used since the times of the USSR, until now, citizens call children Dazdraperm, Kira, Vladlen, etc.
There were cases when parents called their children animal nicknames or purposefully gave the girl the masculine Alyosha or Kirill, and the boy the feminine Svetlana or Maria. Employees of the registry office after the adoption of this law have the right to refuse such parents in registering a child.
Federal Law on the animal world in the latest edition
Also, registration authorities used to meet the following strange names that were given to children:
- Amethyst;
- mister;
- Joy;
- Sun;
- Casper;
- Birch;
- Messiah;
- Eros;
- Luca - Happy Summerset Ocean.
Such "nicknames" will affect the future life of a minor, adversely affecting his psychological health. For this reason, the described law obliges the authorities and gives them the authority to protect the interests of citizens under 18 years of age. If the parents are about to register an invalid name, the staff will register. authorities deny them this and draw up a list of acceptable names that mother and father can choose.
The responsibility of parents who refuse to name the baby as one of the items on the list is that the child will be registered as a "minor without parents" and the case will be transferred to the guardianship and guardianship authorities.
Federal law on guardianship and guardianship in the Russian Federation of 2018 read
List of the most popular names in Russia
The No Unusual Names Act allows the child's parents to select only valid names, and registrars can provide a compiled list. After the entry into force of the law, citizens began to adhere to traditions.
According to 2017 statistics, the most commonly used male names are:
- Alexander;
- Artem;
- Maksim;
- Michael;
- Ivan;
- Daniel;
- Dmitriy;
- Matvey;
- Andrey;
- Kirill.
According to 2017 statistics, the most commonly used female names are:
- Sofia;
- Anna;
- Victoria;
- Alice;
- Pauline;
- Anastasia;
- Elizabeth;
- Alexandra;
- Daria;
- Maria.
Over the past few years, it has become popular among Russians to give children Old Slavonic or Old Russian names. According to statistics for 2017, Matvey, Svyatoslav, Svetogor, Yaroslav, Lyubava, Milana and Adelya have become very common. Citizens who want to name a child according to old Russian traditions can be calm, the new law does not apply to these names. The ban can only affect Zabava, since, according to the interpretations of the present time, this word has an ambiguous meaning.
Otherwise, parents have complete freedom in choosing a name for their own child.
Download the new law on the names of children in the Russian Federation
Statistically, almost every family has one or two children, therefore, all citizens living in the territory of the Russian Federation are advised to familiarize themselves with the text of the described law. The text of the law contains clear restrictions and rules that all citizens of Russia, without exception, must follow.
You can download the Federal Law “On Amendments to Article 58 of the Family Code of the Russian Federation and Article 18 of the Federal Law on Civil Status Acts” dated May 1, 2017 N 94-FZ
Passion for unusual names on the territory of the Russian Federation began in the days of the USSR. The names of the children were intricate abbreviations containing the name of a holiday or the name and field of activity of a certain historical figure. Some of them have successfully taken root, they are called children today. (Vladlen - "Vladimir Lenin", Gertrude - "Heroine of Labor", Lenora - "Lenin - Our Weapon", Kim - "Communist International of Youth"). But a new wave of Russians' enthusiasm for strange and ridiculous nicknames for children has led to the need to introduce a new law on names that are acceptable or not acceptable for assigning a newborn child.
The problem of ridiculous names has become especially acute in the last decade. They contain numbers, nicknames, titles, abbreviations and even swear words. The most famous case is the story of a young Muscovite, whom his parents named BOC rVF 260602 (“Biological Object Man of the Voronin-Frolov family, born on June 26, 2002”). The child suffered from a strange fantasy of his own parents, and was able to change his name to "Igor" only at the age of 14.
In order to abolish such cases, the draft law on the prohibition of registration in official documentation of strange and insulting the honor and dignity of the nicknames of children, proposed Senator Valentina Petrenko, was adopted in the third (final) reading by the State Duma. According to the new law, the registry offices of Russia and other registration authorities are authorized to refuse registration to persons who violate the regulation Art. 18 of the Federal Law "On acts of civil status". From now on, citizens of the Russian Federation are limited in the right to choose unusual names for their own children.
On April 21, 2017, the State Duma adopted the Federal Law “On Amendments to Article 58 of the Family Code of the Russian Federation and Article 18 of the Federal Law “On Civil Status Acts” No. 94-FZ. This law provides for amendments regulating the actions of parents when choosing names for children at birth.
According to a valid amendment that protects the rights of children, the name cannot be offensive, contain numbers and punctuation marks, except for a hyphen. In case of non-compliance with paragraph 1 article 58 valid law, parents will be denied registration of their children as new citizens of the Russian Federation.
According to part 2 of the article under consideration, the surname of the children must correspond to one of the surnames of the parents. It can be either the father's surname or the mother's surname. A double surname is given to a child, provided that all full-blooded children of this family will have one. A double surname consists of two words connected by a hyphen. Other additional inserts are strictly prohibited by law.
The current Law 94-FZ also provides for amendments to Article 18 of the Federal Law "On acts of civil status", adopted on September 15, 1998. The changes also regulate the giving of names to newborn children. (item 2) and last names (item 1) in accordance with applicable law.
How not to name children in Russia?
The new law on baby names will define the list of unacceptable methods when choosing a name for a newborn.
It is considered unacceptable to have:
- Digits, numerals, numbers, dates, computer encoding elements ( Ivan I, Natasha2010, Igor No. 2, Yaroslav100110);
- Punctuation marks with the exception of a hyphen, in which case the hyphen should not be used more than once ( Lyudmila/Kira, Arseniy-Nikita-Svyatogor);
- Names of ranks, positions, titles, various professions ( Princess, Prince);
- Profanity, words with an indefinite and ambiguous meaning, swear words that offend the honor and dignity of both the child himself and the surrounding citizens of the Russian Federation.
There is an opinion that the provision of the law on abbreviations will be abolished. Many of them have long taken root since the times of the USSR and do not cause negative bewilderment among the citizens of the Russian Federation. Of course, this does not mean Dazdraperma ("Long Live the First of May") and Kukutsapol ("Corn - Queen of the Fields"), but quite familiar Vladlena and Kira ("Red Banner Revolution").
Also, registry offices have the right to refuse to register names that do not comply with the moral principles characteristic of citizens of the Russian Federation. According to the records of the population registration authorities, there are cases when parents give a male name to a girl and vice versa (example - Alyosha-Kaprina), sometimes it comes to animal nicknames ( Tuzik, Murka).
Also in the registration registers of registry offices often appear citizens named as follows:
- Lucifer;
- Batman;
- Luka-Happiness Summerset Ocean;
- Eros;
- Messiah;
- Fun.
Often, the violent creative fantasy of the child's parents has negative consequences for his future. The current law on the names of children empowers the responsible authorities to stand up for the protection of the interests of a minor citizen. If registration is denied, parents who insist on their decision are offered a list of acceptable names.
If they do not agree, and in this case, according to the new bill, the child is registered as abandoned, and his further fate is decided by the guardianship authorities.
The most popular names in Russia
Most citizens of the Russian Federation, after all, prefer traditions.
Most popular male names According to statistics for the current year, these are:
- Alexander;
- Vladimir;
- Dmitriy;
- Sergey;
- Daniel;
- Artyom.
According to the data for the statistical period of 2017, girls in Russia are most often called:
- Anna;
- Catherine;
- Maria;
- Natalya;
- Olga;
- Elena.
In the last decade, it has become very common old Russian and Slavic names. These include Svyatoslav, Yaroslav, Dragomir, Lubomir, Lyubava, Milana and even Dobrynya. It should be noted that the law banning unusual names does not apply to such an old tradition in a new light. The only exception is Fun- because of its ambiguity in the modern interpretation of the word.
Download the text of the new baby name law
To familiarize yourself with the new provision of the current Federal Law “On Amendments to Art. 58 of the Family Code of the Russian Federation and Article 18 of the Federal Law “On acts of civil status” No. 94-FZ, the current text of the amendments can be downloaded
Before the revolution, babies were given names in Russia simply: they looked into the calendar and chose the name of the saint on whose feast the Sacrament of Baptism fell, or they chose the name of the saint whose feast was closest. From generation to generation, Nikodim and Domna, Tikhon and Agrippina were not translated in Rus'. But the coming to power of the atheists allowed the parents to show their own imagination. And it started!
Instead of Pelageya, barefoot Dazdraperms ran through the streets of cities and towns of the USSR, instead of Romanovs - Remy or Reimira, instead of Vladimirs - Vladleny, Vidlyona and Vileny, in place of Tikhonov - Trozileny (Trotsky, Zinoviev, Lenin).
The fantasy of parents in the later USSR did not dry out: babies were called Atheists and Radiums, Avtodors and Swarms (Roy - revolution, October, International), Dzerzhinalds and Isotherms, Istalins, Leninids and Marxins, Takles (Lenin and Stalin's tactics) and even Turbins.
Who is in the forest, who is for firewood ...
Since the official ideology in Russia disappeared in the 1990s, and there was a lot of freedom, parents took advantage of their right to come up with even more strange names for their children. Among them are the Lord and the Queen, Luka Shchastya Summerset Ocean and Dolphin, Mercury and Ichthyander, Viagra (this name is registered with the registry office of the Queen) and Privatization, Crimea and Russia, Medmiya (in honor of Dmitry Medvedev) and Vlapunal (Vladimir Putin is our leader).
In 2012, in Perm, Satanists Natalia and Konstantin Menshikov named their first child Lucifer.
But Muscovites Vyacheslav Voronin and Marina Frolova surpassed everyone: in 2002, the couple decided to name their son BOC rVF 260602 (Biological Object Man of the Voronin-Frolov family born on 06/26/2002). The employees of the registry office in Chertanovo did not appreciate the creative impulse of the parents and refused to record an exotic name.
The parents decided to insist on their own, they refused to register the baby under a different name and issued the child a passport with the World Government of World Citizens, a non-profit organization headquartered in Washington. The passport allowed parents to issue a medical policy for the baby. However, later the couple had to back down and register the child with Boch Frolov so that he could get a passport of a Russian citizen.
No more numbers!
On May 1, 2017, Vladimir Putin approved a law that prohibits certain names from being registered.
The changes affected Article No18 of the Federal Law "On acts of civil status". Paragraph 2 expressly prohibits the registration of a newborn's name if it consists of numbers and alphanumeric characters or numerals. It is forbidden to write down the names of children, consisting of characters or their various combinations, which do not stand for letters, except for a hyphen. Under the ban were names containing swear words, as well as indications of various titles, positions and ranks.
But even after that, the parents of Russia had a huge field for fantasy: Lucifers, Tutankhamuns, Boches, Vlapunaly and Lettuce Salads remained “in law”.
We are not the only ones
In fairness, it should be said that Russian parents are not alone in this respect - the tendency to give children strange names has spread around the world along with atheism. In France, the girl was named Bambi - in honor of the favorite brand of cookies of one of the parents, in the USA the boy was named after Yahoo, and in New Zealand the child was named Real Superman - a real superman.
A very strange name was for a US citizen who worked as a compositor in Philadelphia. In full form, it occupied three whole lines, and in short it looked like this: Hubert Blaine Wolfschlegelsteinhausenbergedorf Sr. or, if even shorter, Wolf + 585 Sr., and the number 585 meant the number of letters in the surname. It is curious that Hubert refused to communicate with officials if his full name was not indicated in the appeals to him or in the letters. It consisted of 25 names, each of which began with a new letter of the alphabet: Adolph Blaine Charles David... and so on. Several books have been written on the subject of this name in the United States, and the source is Genealogical Records. LongestName believes that Hubert's surname consisted of real, but distorted German words, which together made up a completely meaningful text.
But the Indian with the surname Brahmatra became the record holder for the length of the name. His name consists of 1,478 letters, which is a list of place names, names of diplomats and scientists. They say it takes at least 10 minutes to read it completely.
What will be next?
What will happen to the names next, it is difficult to predict. Inna Erokhina, director of the registry office in distant Krasnoyarsk, complains in an interview that ordinary names are not popular. There are fewer and fewer Russian children in Russia with the names Tatyana, Olga, and the names Vera, Nadezhda and Lyubov do not occur at all, and this is an alarming symptom. The director complains that serials and movie stars set the popularity of names. In general, now in Russia there is a boom in Anastasy, Christine, Elon. Some give children double names: Anna-Maria, Angelina-Victoria, Maria-Sophia. The names from Christmas time are also in demand: Rodion, Prokhor, Gleb, Danila, Luka, Innokenty, Savely, Demid, Anfisa, Vasilisa, Ulyana, Avdotya and Anisya. Modern parents love the name Dobrynya, but at the same time, the patronymic of the baby is necessarily Nikitich. But many come up with names themselves - Arsenty, Belitrissa, Darina, Lina and so on. Of the exotic names in Siberia, there are Angara, Yenisei and the Sun, and in Moscow, according to the head of the registry office of Moscow, Irina Muravyova, the most amazing waists are male names: Kantogor-Egor, Arkhip-Ural, Kasper Beloved and girlish: Cherry, India, Oceana, Angel Maria and Alyosha-Kaprina.
Another, but quite reasonable legislative initiative came out of the Duma offices. One of the parliamentary parties has begun drafting a bill that would prohibit the use of numbers, punctuation marks and various symbols in the names of children. And he would introduce a single list of names for the work of the registry office.
Recently, in Russia, there has been a fashion for unusual names. So, over the past year, the boys Ogneslav, Maxim-Moscow, the girls Legend and Chelsea were born only in Moscow.
Tikhons, Virinei, Zakhara began to appear more often in Rostov. One girl was even named Apollinaria. In short, probably Pauline. The other one was named Dominica. The parents just said they liked it. This name is not Orthodox. But there are also quite a lot of national names. For example, there were Drasdamad and Sirun (which is translated from Armenian as “beautiful”). To the ear, such names sound somewhat exotic, but they, of course, have the right to exist.
One of the unusual names was given to a newborn girl - Alice-Love. Other names of newly born young Donetsk women:
Ademira, Eva-Maria, Leila, Satenik, Tanzilya, Evelina, Kamala, Kasandra, Evdokia, Lucien, Yasmina, Aysun, Bozena, Evangelina.
Boys are also called unusual names on the Don: Blagovest, Methodius, Elisha, Amir, Jafar, Yeremey, Joseph, Lavrenty, Bagdasar, Dzhambulat, Natalilian, Nitai, Odin, Fopen.
But it is one thing to give a child an old, long-forgotten name from an old name book. A name that was once popular but is no longer used. And it's quite another thing to come up with a new name.
First of all, you need to think about whether the child himself will like the name. The name should not cause ridicule and surprise among the people around. The first name should be well combined with the surname and patronymic. The name should be easy to pronounce and evoke positive emotions.
Of course, giving a child a strange, unusual name is the right of the parents, but when the egoism of the parents stands behind the name of the child, the child has to pay for it. To pay with complexes, failures, isolation and the eternal question: "For what?"
Not every adult, not to mention a child, is able to cope with the name imposed on him and with increased psychological stress. And yet, there have always been and will be strange and unusual names that go beyond all sorts of boundaries.
Representatives of the council of one of the parliamentary parties of the State Duma on the development and improvement of legislation intend to prohibit the use of numbers, punctuation marks and various symbols in the names of children.
Today, in our country, parents are given complete freedom to choose a name for their child. The registry office has no right to refuse to register a child's name because of its dissonance, offensiveness, offensiveness, lack of culture, unpronunciation, etc., lawyer Viktoria Pashkova, one of the initiators of the drafting of the bill, told Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Meanwhile, creativity in names also flourished in the USSR. Here are just a few pearls of that time: Oak (Give reinforced concrete!), Waterpezhekosma (Valentina Tereshkova - the first woman cosmonaut), Kukutsapol (Corn - the queen of the fields), Pofistal (the winner of the Nazis Joseph Stalin) and others.
There is a similar practice in New Zealand. The list of allowed names appeared there after parents wanted to name their child 62 times Justice and 31 times King, six times Lucifer, twice Messiah and Christ; the children were named Cruelty and Bus Stop No. 16.
Yes, and here in Russia, in Perm, on October 15 of this year, a boy was born, whom his parents decided to call Lucifer.
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