Church Girl Names - Full List

Our country is great, children live and are born there in families, professing different religious and national traditions. In this diversity is one of the secrets of the viability of the Russian state, which has become a home for Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Catholics, Lutherans and all other faiths, each of whom praises the Lord in their own way.

How to choose a name?

Orthodoxy is the most widespread religion on the territory of the state. National traditions are associated with more than a thousand-year history of Russian Christianity, and one can only rejoice that they are being revived in our time, returning us to true values after many godless years.

In the family, joy - the baby was born! Funny efforts, buying a baby carriage, diapers, sliders, nipples, bottles and much more take the mind of a happy dad. All congratulate parents, grandparents. But there is yet another important and joyful event ahead: a spiritual birth. You should prepare for it. And the name should be chosen. In this issue, as in general in family life, the unanimity of the spouses is important, and conflicts are absolutely unacceptable.

The life of an Orthodox man in Christ begins after the rite of baptism. Parents should think in advance about what church names of girls and boys they like, consult with their neighbors. It would be superfluous to ask the confessor's blessing, if any. If necessary, the advice of the priest can prove to be truly priceless, for by its very nature the service presupposes the existence of experience in such everyday matters.

Fashion names

In recent decades, the list of names has been rather monotonous, and the fashion for them covered whole generations. In the late thirties, boys were often called Anatolia, Lydia girls or Aelitas (after the heroine of the fantastic story of Tolstoy). After the first space flights appeared a lot of Yuriev, Germanov and Valentin. Parents have the right even to come up with an original or unique name, which it seems appropriate. So it was before, even before 1917. The epigram of Nekrasov is known, in which he calls to find strength to teach the father, who called the two sons Mind and Force. Especially suffered from such parental self-expression of the girl. In the nineties, moms and dads preferred borrowings from "overseas" life, their victims were numerous Suzanne, Amelie, Flora and Izauri.

The churching of the people led to the revival and return of traditional Russian aesthetics.

The golden placips of the shrines

There is no need to invent something special and intricate when there are beautiful church names of girls. Sofia, Vasilisa, Anastasia, Feodosia, Alexandra, Alla, Daria, Larisa, Evdokia, Taisia, Zoya, Faina, Pelageya, Valeriya, Martha, Thekla, Antonina, Ulyana are just a small part of those gold placers with which the saints are rich. In a sense, these beautiful consonances are opposed to the influence of Western culture, penetrating into society along with movies, video clips and music, sounding from the speakers of receivers and televisions.

It is always pleasant to enjoy the best examples of art, moreover, such a desire is commendable, regardless of whether the author of the work was a Russian person or a foreigner. It is regrettable to be servile to all foreign countries, and it is especially sad to observe a voluntary renunciation of one's own life-giving sources. The name bears in its sound information about the people that the person represents. There are, of course, more important things, but why not pay attention to it? You can and should choose a harmonious, beautiful and glorious name. Pay attention also to his harmonious match of the name. The combination of the primordial Slavic with foreign sounds sounds comical. In addition, after the girl is married, the surname can be changed, and completely unpredictable. Stella Ivanova and Margarita Tyutkina can be the characters of humorous stories describing the NEP period in the style of Zoshchenko, but in real life they can create a lot of unpleasant moments for the bearers of this name.

The influence of a name on upbringing

The church names of the girls not only reflect the Christian views of their parents, but often determine the nature of the daughters, and consequently their destiny. In addition, they seriously affect the important aspect of education, such as national self-identification. To feel part of a great nation means, on the one hand, to feel a firm ideological basis and dignity, and on the other - to take responsibility for the fate of the country and be proud of it. Thus, by choosing Russian church names for girls, parents from an early age develop a civic attitude and patriotism.

The source is the saints ...

Each phenomenon has a technical side. Some parents in connection with the birth of a daughter raises questions about where you can read all the church names of girls to choose the one that they will like. Find these lists simply, they are contained in the shrines, which are sold in the shops of all Orthodox churches, as well as in specialized stores for believers. Sometimes they are also printed together with prayer books, and such a humble book will always find its place among other publications standing on a shelf in the home of every Orthodox person. There is another source that will be needed in this case - "Lives of the Saints". In this book you can find out the fate of that woman-ascetic, in honor of which her parents are going to name her daughter. Information about her benefactors will undoubtedly have a beneficial effect on the character and life aspirations of the child, who will have a long life full of happy and sad events, happiness and trials.

... and the church calendar

There is a tradition to choose the names of girls according to the church calendar. In this issue there is considerable freedom, because for each date, as a rule, are the names of several saints. In addition, there is no special chronological rigor, one can focus on the whole month in which a daughter appeared to the world. For example, the list of church names of girls born in July includes such options as Alevtina, Marina, Efrosinya, Evdokia, Julia, Olga, Margarita, Efimiya and many others, for almost every taste. They can be ordinary, widespread or sound unusual for the ear of a modern person, but it should be borne in mind that for a long time people have been trying (and not without success) to instill the idea that everything pre-revolutionary is backward, outdated and even ridiculous. For example, it was believed that such church Orthodox names of girls, like Akulina or the Olympics, can only be worn by decrepit old women. As, actually, and go to the temple, to celebrate Easter cakes or to observe other church rites. In fact, our ancestors were not more stupid than us, and there is nothing funny in their names.

Other cases of name selection

Often parents want to give a name to a child in honor of some remarkable person who helped or even saved someone from the family from imminent death. It happens that the mother and father are unanimous in wanting to name a daughter in memory of a grandmother or great-grandmother. In this there is nothing wrong, on the contrary, such a bright respect and veneration of departed forever or living relatives and friends is peculiar to the most sincere people. However, it should be remembered that regardless of whether the church names of girls are selected by dates or based on other considerations, the newly baptized infant acquires a guardian angel for life. The day of this saint will be a holiday, and in his sorrows it is necessary to ask for intercession. Everything else depends on us living on Earth.

God bless you!