What do you think about Slavic names?

[Longbowman]

Wrong. Helena is Latinized version of Greek name Ἑλένα. So Russian Elena is exact match of original name.

Curiously even in England originally the name was Ellen but transformed later.

Ellen is still a name here d00d.

[Haldis]

I like them, especially Bulgarian names.

[Mikula]

It seems that number of Slavic names in our country, is decreesing, generally.
But when I look at names of Czechoslovak and Czech Presidents, the situation is reverse.
All of Czechoslovak Presidents had non-Slavic firstnames
Tomáš, Evdard, Beneš, Emil, Klement, Antonín (2 times), Ludvík, Gustáv - just the last one had
Slavic firstname Václav (Havel).
After end of Czechoslovakia we had 3 Czech presidents, all of them had Slavic firstnames:
Václav Havel, Václav Klaus, Miloš Zeman

[Ülev]

[Mikula]

Best Bulgarian/Slavic male names for me

Miroslav
Lefter
Georgi
Hristo
Nikola

Don't mind that most are Greek and only Bulgarians have them among Slavs.

Georgi and Nikola are popular also in another Slavic countries, but in different form.
Georgij, Juraj, Jurij, Jiří, Jerzy
Nikolaj, Mikołaj, Mikoláš, Mikuláš
etc.

[Mikula]

I find it interesting how many people associate Ivan with Russians, and it is actually most common in Croatia.

It is strange how rare this version is among Slavs except among Croats and Russians.

Serbs use Jovan, Poles, Czechs use Janusz/Jan ?
Slovenes also use Jan i think.

It is Biblical originally ofcourse.

Janusz is Polish variant, Czech use Jan, Slovaks Ján.
Slovenian variant is Janez - I thought that you Croats nicknamed Slovenes Kranjski Janezi?

[Moje ime]

Georgi and Nikola are popular also in another Slavic countries, but in different form.
Georgij, Juraj, Jurij, Jiří, Jerzy
Nikolaj, Mikołaj, Mikoláš, Mikuláš
etc.

Djordje, Nikola, Miroslav in Serbian variant. First two very common names.

[Mikula]

Djordje, Nikola, Miroslav in Serbian variant. First two very common names.

Jiří ist he most popular Czech firstname ever.
Miroslav is the 12th most frquent firstname in Czechia, now.
Mikuláš was rare, considered as archaic, but became popular in the last years, again, my younger son is Mikuláš, too

[Mikula]

Problem with using of Slavic firstnames is, that most of them are too long.
Male names with endings like -slav and -mir ar mostly trisyllabic, female names -slava, mira
are even quadrosylabic.
But shorter bisyllabic names exists too
(Václav, Vojtěch, Vladan, Zbigniew, Radek).
I know just one monosyllabic name - Vuk, but perhaps exists more of ones.

According the more-syllabic names, ones are used in its lang form just officially, family and friends use shorter nicknames
For example in Czech we use:
male names
for Jaroslav - Jarek, Jára or Jarda (Slovaks use form Jaro)
for Miroslav - Mirek or Míra (Slovaks use form Miro)
for Vladimír - Vláďa (Slovaks use form Vlado)

female names
for Jaroslava - Jarka
for Miroslava - Mirka
for Vladimíra - Vlaďka or Vladěna

For all names with endings -slav is also possible to use a nickname Slávek
(in female form - slava the nick could be Slávka)

[Jana]

Janusz is Polish variant, Czech use Jan, Slovaks Ján.
Slovenian variant is Janez - I thought that you Croats nicknamed Slovenes Kranjski Janezi?

Yes