Ukrainian form of Alexandro meaning defender of man.

Last names for ukrainian. Most Ukrainian last names were formed by adding suffixes to the end of given geographical and occupational names. You may have heard about at least one Roksolana a wife of the Turkish Sultan Suleiman. Yelizaveta TomashevskaGetty Ukrainian last names can be found throughout the globe.

A famous bearer was Boris Pasternak 1890-1960 author of Doctor Zhivago. Russian and Ukrainian form of the Old Norse name Guðleifr which was derived from the elements guð god and leifr heir. Traditional Ukrainian names were the names of saints or biblical characters that had Jewish Latin or Greek origin.

Ukrainian version of Maria meaning star of the sea bitter or beloved. The name occasionally appears in the south usually in forms which end in o but the northern forms ending in i are much more common. Ukrainian form of the name Anastasia and the feminine form of the Ancient Greek name Anastasius which is the Latinized form of the Greek name Anastasios.

This name comes from the Greek word anastasis meaning resurrection Nastya is a diminutive form of this name also common in Ukraine. Means parsnip in various Slavic languages ultimately from Latin pastinaca. So Роксолана means a woman from the Roksolan tribe.

Like Russian last names they connect families to their Soviet history. Derived from Ukrainian олія oliya meaning oil fat. Роксолана Roksolana One of the most beautiful Ukrainian names comes from the Middle Ages.

Gleb Глеб m Russian Ukrainian. Like most countries and languages Ukrainian surnames were mainly either patronymicmatronymic occupational names or toponyms named after a place. Pasternak Пастернак Polish Ukrainian Russian Yiddish.