What is your first names origin?

[Salty Ears]

Russian form of germano-scandinavian name Gutleifr
first of all, it is connected with the first saints in Russia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_and_Gleb

[Scarface F]

In Romania, there is also this possibility for godparents to choose the name, not only the parents. Or the child can be named after the godmother/godfather. In this latter case, for example I would have been Cornelia, like my godmother.

I like Cornelia very much!

Juraj sounds nice. Shame for what has happened, I don't understand the priest's reasoning.




Also, just as random fact, they way in which saint George is represented (on a horse slaying the dragon), is tied to the Paleo-Balkanic culture and history, to the Thracian horseman motif

Thank you! And I didn't know of this at all!

Here is statue in Zagreb I love:

[Mortimer]

Svetozar = Cyrillic Светозар

*Engl: Old name of slavic origins, combines the root words svet (sacred) and zar (lightness, shine)

[frankhammer]

Mine is an old English name of a geographic feature. Neither of my brothers or sister, nor my son and granddaughters have a biblical name. All are of European origin.

[Nurzat]

Is it common in Croatia to use Russian names?

they're very common in Romania, especially in girls:

- younger ones: Anastasia, Anisia, Daria, Raisa, Ania, Ana, Anna, Maria, Valentina, Alina, Iulia, Olga, Victoria, Diana, Sofia, Vera etc
- older ones: Varvara, Odarca, Elena, Fedora, Eudochia, Tecla, Natalia, Nastasia, Ecaterina, Tatiana, Elizaveta/Elisabeta etc


you Russkies share a lot of stuff with Romanians, even though you'd prefer not to

it comes from multiple areas: culturally Eastern European, Ottoman-origin cuisine with similar further development due to similar crops and similar weather, overall, culturally post-communist, culturally Orthodox Christianity.

although as a group you are distinct, there is considerable individual overlap in looks as well.

culturally there is overlap between ex-Soviet space and the Balkans, as both are subsets of Oriental Europe, but with Romania and northeast Romania in special (and Moldova broadly) the overlap is even more consistent

[LastDayz]

First Name Ahmet = Arabic
Second Name Faruk = Arabic

[Vessna]

Svetozar = Cyrillic Светозар

*Engl: Old name of slavic origins, combines the root words svet (sacred) and zar (lightness, shine)

I thought your name meant свет - light, зар(жар) - heat, like the heat you get from the sunlight. Свет also means the world, we say the entire world - целый свет.

[Vessna]

Russian form of germano-scandinavian name Gutleifr
first of all, it is connected with the first saints in Russia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_and_Gleb

Gleb is a badass Old Norse name

[Mortimer]

I thought your name meant свет - light, зар(жар) - heat, like the heat you get from the sunlight. Свет also means the world, we say the entire world - целый свет.

Yes i think you are right

[Rogan]

It's a Christian name of Latin origin