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The most popular surname in Russia and its origin

"What's in my name for you ..." Pushkin once wrote in the album of Caroline Sobanska, known in the aristocratic circles of the beautiful Polish woman, addressing her one of her best lyrical works. To paraphrase the words of a famous poet, let's say differently: what do our names and surnames mean, why do some seem attractive, euphonious, and others, on the contrary, cause a negative reaction?

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About what the most popular in Russia surname, unfounded can be argued for a long time. After all, how many people, so many tastes, and therefore, of opinions about the same number. But if you analyze the statistical data and remember that the personification of all Russian is "Ivan", then there is nothing surprising in another fact. All derivatives of it are also high-frequency and widely distributed.

Hence it is clear that the most popular in Russia surname, a visiting card, so to speak, of domestic anthroponyms is Ivanov. It was worn for many centuries by peasants - the most numerous class of the population of the country. Even the saying goes like this: "We have Ivanov, like a filthy mushroom." What is remarkable: in order to "refine" the common origin of the surname, some of its owners began to change the stress from the last syllable to the first, from the sound "o" to "a" at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. For example, this was one of the brightest poets of the Silver Age, Vyacheslav Ivanov. Such a substitution did not affect the fact that this was the most popular surname in Russia, and it remains to this day.

Smirnovy from Smyrnae

Probably, now many will be surprised that once among the common people there was a name Smirny. So parents in large families, noisy and screaming families, where the children were, that the peas in the field, and they did not differ in their obedience, distinguished quiet, silent, unstrung offspring. Later, as usual, a nickname was formed from the name. And from it has already turned out one more popular in Russia surname - Smirnovy. It was famous for its numerous representatives in the Northern Volga, Kostroma and Yaroslavl, as well as other neighboring regions and regions.

When the profession determines the name

Often nicknames (initial names of surnames) were given to people depending on what kind of occupation they were engaged in. For example, blacksmiths in Russia were valued almost in weight of gold. This profession was considered very prestigious, honorable, respected. No village could do without a blacksmith. Therefore, the most popular in Russia surname, along with those already listed, are the Kuznetsovs. At first, that was the name of the children whose father worked in the smithy. Then the nickname received the status of a full name of his own. Similar analogies, by the way, are also many in the foreign anthroponymy. Especially clear examples we see among the Germans. Surname Müller, which means the miller, was worn by almost half of the inhabitants of Germany, and it is just as revealing as the Kuznetsovs or Ivanovs. And Fischer (remember the great chess player?) Is a fisherman, Schmidt is also a blacksmith.

The nickname for the feathered

This popular Russian names, of course, do not end there. Romanovs are widely known, the "high-frequency" Popovs, Morozovs, Ermakovs, Tikhonovs.

Entire families take the origins of their nicknames from those settlements where their ancestors first settled. And here is another phenomenon of onomastics: the most popular Russian surname of "bird's" origin is the Sokolovs. There is nothing to surprise with. Hunting is not only one of the main means of harvesting food among the ancient Slavs, including Russian peasants, but also the inhabitants of villages of later centuries. Falconry is our national fun. At the court of the tsar-father, as well as the richest noblemen (boyars), the falconer was a special post. Those who occupied it had to train and keep in proper form hunting falcons. Of the same number were the popular in Russia surnames of Orlov, Lebedev. And in general, the names of birds and animals - one of the main sources of our nicknames. Volkovs, Olenines, Lvovs, Medvedevs, Karpovs, Somovs, Ershovs, etc. - this is an obvious proof.

It's curious

Linguist Boris Henrikhovich Unbegaum at the beginning of the last century, having analyzed the metric data and address books of 1910, determined, as it is now customary to say, the top-hundred most common Russian names in the state. The list was opened, of course, the Ivanovs. Then came the Vasilievs and the Petrovs, Smirnovs and Mikhailovs. That is, the principle already described by us has worked: from name to surname.

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