Romanian male names. Romanian and Moldovan female names

It is no secret that Moldovan and Romanian names are quite beautiful and harmonious in sound, which is why they have gained their popularity far beyond the borders of these countries. Moldavian and Romanian surnames are worth a special mention. Their translation can often denote some kind of profession, a characteristic feature of a person, his successes. And in combination with the name, play a decisive role in determining the fate of a person and his character.

Origin Classification

Romanian and Moldovan names are indigenous to the inhabitants of these countries. Many of them are quite often used in Russia. Conventionally, the following classes of names can be distinguished:

• borrowed from Slavic languages;
• originated in the territories of Italy and Spain;
• taken from the Catholic and Orthodox calendars;
• appeared in ancient Rome.

Moldovan names

The following Moldovan female names are in the top three most popular: Angela, Tatiana and Elena. Top 3 among men: David, Maxim, Alexandru.

List of the most on the territory of Moldova and their etymological meaning:

Even rare Moldovan names are often found in Russia, as well as in other countries.

What are children called in Moldova

List of popular Moldovan names for boys and girls:

Choosing a name for a child is a very responsible matter. It must be selected with love and attention, taking into account the prevalence, euphony, as well as compatibility with the surname and patronymic.

Romanian variants

Top 3 Romanian female names: Maria, Elena, Anna. Three Romanian male names: Gheorghe, John, Vasile.

On the territory of Romania, the following male and female female names:

Since ancient times, it was believed that the name affects further fate and the formation of a person's character. If, when meeting, pay special attention to the meaning of a person’s name, then thanks to this you can get to know him better.

Surnames are passed on to Romania as a whole as in West Germany. The children take the name of the father, the wife takes the surname of her husband. Although the order of the name and is then used as the second in Everyday life, the sequence is twisted on official documents. When a Romanian introduces himself, will he call his last name therefore first.

Typical Romanian surnames

In Romania, many of the most common surnames are named from where. The name of scholars is called Patronymen, If the name comes from the father. Matronym is, If it comes from the mother. Amariei is the "Son or daughter of Mary". Also a great example Konstantin, What “Constant” means and is already in ancient rome was his bearer of the name. Then wagons, stations also, as "Son" is widely used, oh Popescu And Ionescu which are described below. But the properties of the carrier were and are used. Surname Balan meaning "blonde" in romanian, Albu is "White". From a professional name, as they are used so much in Germany, there is less contrast to be found here. funar about the mentioned Schneider, Fierar Blacksmith, but no one does in our leaderboard. GEO names can be found in Marzie, Hungary born Romanian.

List of 50 Most Popular Surnames in Romania

Is the most verwendendete Romanian Nachmane Popescu and as the second most common Popa Sohn des Priests. Der drittplatzierte Ionescu is "Sohn des Ion". Auf dem vierten rank findet Sich George Georg und dem Vornamen angelehnt Pop ALS fifth ist der “Priester”.

1. Popescu
Popa
Ionescu
George
Pop
R
DAS
Sahu
Stan
10. Major
Konstantin
Andrey
Rahman
abisa
Matthew
Marin
Mihai
Camara
S.
20. Stefan
Lacey
Faisal
Dumitrescu
BA
Safari
Vasile
Ibrahim
cassidy
Tom
30. Mahmoud
OBI
dang
Tudor
Iguchi
And he
UBA
Constantinescu
Georgescu
Balan
40.Nyagu
Dragomir
badya
Cojocaru
sandu
Mokanu
Enache
Nagy
coman
Krachun
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Romanian and Moldovan names- the names used on the territory of Romania and Moldova can be divided into several groups:

Names religious background(biblical names).

Names borrowed from Slavic languages.

Names derived from Romanian words.

Names borrowed from related Romance languages ​​(mainly Italian and Spanish).

Ancient Roman names.

And others.

Romanian and Moldovan male names

In this case, there are several types of name borrowing:

• from Slavic languages;
• from antiquity (Roman);
• from Christianity ( we are talking about church calendars, all names are mainly Greek, Latin, Hebrew).

The most extensive group in the list of male Romanian names are borrowings from the Bible and from church books. The Romanians "mastered" religion gradually. Unlike others Slavic peoples, in the area of ​​​​their residence, Christianization took place during the 3rd - 4th centuries (in the period from the 9th to the 12th centuries). As a result, the Hebrew Ion ("Yahweh is merciful"), the ancient Greek Gheorghe ("farmer") and Vasile ("royal, regal") can be observed in the language.

Also, Romanian adopted some of the South Slavic names during cohabitation with other peoples until the 14th century, for example, Drag (translated as “dear”). Common Slavic roots are typical for words of this origin.

Another item on the list of borrowings is the arrangement of the names of the Roman gods and heroes of the epic. Similar names appeared in Romanian thanks to the passion of Europeans ancient literature, theater and architecture. Examples: Ovidiu (from the Roman genus name Ovidius, probably translated as "sheep"), Liviu (from "Livius", probably meaning "shine blue" or "envy").

There is also a group of ancient Romanian male names that originated from the names of plants, animals, holidays and other phenomena. Take a look: Bujor - translated from Romanians. means "peony", Ursu - translates as "bear".

Features of Romanian male names and surnames

There are several anthroponymic factors that distinguish Romanians from other European nations.

Firstly, this is the absence of special signs of difference between the surname and the first name (for example, Ion Petrescu - both names look like a given name). Structurally and morphologically, the first often coincides with the male name. For a person who is unfamiliar with the word order in a full name in various speech situations, it will be an impossible task to determine the name and surname.

The law is:

If the situation involves officialdom (documents) or it is ordinary colloquial / written speech, then the surname is put first and then the given name.

In common parlance or in books/magazines, the word order is reversed.

Another way to recognize is to identify abbreviations in the text. It is the first letter with a dot at the end that means that this refers to the boy's name.

The second feature is the abundance of diminutive names, often shortened names, which are used both in official and informal settings. For example, there is the name Paraschiv, short form which is Chivu. However, both forms are used in newspapers and on TV - Chivu Stoica (this is the name of the Romanian politician) and Paraschiv Vasilescu (this is the name of the general).

Conclusion

So, we have considered the main channels of borrowing and origin of Romanian names for men. Now we can say with confidence that the anthroponymy of this language was influenced by relations with neighboring peoples living in adjacent areas, the adoption of Christianity and the medieval hobby ancient culture. Still in Romanian at the peak of popularity are names from church calendars, they are simple and understandable to any Slav.

If you have not yet decided which name to choose for your baby, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the list of names below.

The surname, as part of the full name, has a recent history in the world. Its consolidation in the documents of most countries began rather late, and its need, as personal identifier, gradually intensified due to internal migrations, expansion economic ties and bringing order to the institution of inheritance.

First surname as mandatory identifier , appears in Italy after the corresponding decree of the Pope. This was due precisely to the growth of cities and the need to distinguish people with the same names. Later in France, they took a similar step at the suggestion of Catherine de Medici, and then the trend began to spread to other countries.

Although this part of the full name in different countries has different roots and endings (after all, languages ​​are different), the same factors take part in their formation, the only question is the percentage of family names of different categories . Where does the surname come from?

1. From a family name. These were usually worn by the elite;
2. on behalf of an ancestor. The patronymic turned into a surname;
3. From the profession of an ancestor;
4. From a toponym that indicates where the person's ancestor came from;
5. From nickname;
6. By converting a foreign language for various reasons (often political) into the language of the country of residence.

Moldovan and Romanian surnames are no exception here, and we will talk about them today.

Types of Romanian given names and surnames

We will use the word "Romanian" in relation to the whole group, since National language and Moldovans, and Romanians alone. I would like to immediately warn you: the article has no political connotation.

Eastern Romance ethnic groups- Moldavians and Romanians - are interesting because they are at the junction of Western European and Byzantine traditions. Their ancestors, who belonged to the Thracian tribes of the Dacians and Getae, were conquered by the Roman emperor Trajan and romanized, that is, they switched to colloquial Latin. On this basis, the Wallachian ethnic groups began to form.

The exoethnonym "Vlach" was once used in the meaning of "Roman" (speaking one of the Romance languages) in Russian chronicles. During the Great Migration of Nations, they experienced a strong Slavic influence, and later entered the sphere of influence Byzantine Empire and adopted Christianity of the Eastern (Orthodox) rite.

In this regard, the names of the current Moldovans and Romanians are mostly Christian, adapted to the peculiarities of the language.

The most common names among Romanians

Male names

IN Lately the names Andrei, Stefan, David, Mihai, Ionuts, Daniel and a number of others become popular.

Women's names

Andrea, Alexandra, Denise, Bianca and double names are also gaining popularity. In Moldavia characteristic feature female names is the existence of both Slavic and Romance names with the same meaning, for example:

Svetlana - Luminitsa

Hope - Speranza

Classification of Romanian surnames by origin

The representatives of the elite acquired the first similarity of surnames in the Wallachian and Moldavian principalities. The Wallachian principality was ruled by representatives of the Basarab family, and the Moldavian principality by Musatov.

Boyar aristocracy, representing the top of the principalities, had a heterogeneous origin, both local and foreign - Greek, Russian (however, it was not completely foreign), Kypchak, Albanian. From here come the genera Gika, Duka, Sturdza and others.

It is a stretch to call them full-fledged surnames - their representatives in different circumstances could change them. So, during the reign of the Turks, the aristocracy often “turkified” their family name with the help of the prefixes kara- and the suffix -oglo (I recall the hero of the second part “ dead souls» Constantjoglo), and after liberation from Ottoman Empire the surname acquired a patronymic suffix -esku or when acquiring citizenship Russian Empire-ov (Kheraskov, for example).

Also, the descendants of the Phanariots, the Greeks of Constantinople, who accepted Ottoman citizenship and were used by the authorities of the empire in various local and clerical positions, joined the aristocracy. They got their name from the Greek district of Istanbul - Phanara. Among the Phanariotes are the Mavrocordato, Muruzi, Katakazi, Ypsilanti clans.

The majority of the population of pre-industrial states were peasants, and surnames of peasant origin rarely have any suffixes. Most often they come from the name or nickname of the ancestor, as well as from the area from which the ancestor came. City professions were displayed on the names of city dwellers.

Often Romanian and Moldovan surname indistinguishable from the name, especially in the villages. Sometimes it came from a name in a diminutive or some other evaluative form.

Romanian family suffixes

Non-suffix surnames

Distributed in rural areas and among people from it. Occur most often from a name or nickname. Examples:

• Iancu, Dimitru, Ion, Ilie (from names)
• Ilinca, Ionel, Nitu (from modified names)
• Rusă, Turcu, Tătaru, Sîrbu (the ancestor was a foreigner)
• Lupu, Neagu, Dabija (from nicknames)

-eanu

To some extent this suffix similar to Russian -yanin. Examples:

• Munteanu (either a person from the mountains, or - for Moldovans - a person from Wallachia)
• Braileanu (from Braila)
• Ungareanu (an ancestor from Hungary came out)
• Brașoveanu (from Brasov)

Sometimes a similar suffix was put to originally foreign names for the purpose of adaptation in a foreign language environment. So, the name of the director Emil Loteanu is one of those. His ancestors from the Chernivtsi region were Lototsky, and when Bukovina was part of Romania, they became Loteanu. Sometimes this suffix occurs in surnames Armenian origin(due to phonetic similarity).

-ea and -oiu

This group originated from one of the forms of the noun (verbal, possessive), there are many of them in Moldova and in Romanian villages.

Oprea, Ciurea, Vladoui, Lupea, Miroiu, Filipoiu

-aru

Most often it is "professionalism".

Spataru, Rotaru, Fieraru, Pantofaru, Olaru.

-escu

This suffix occurs in all Romance languages and originates from the Latin language. As for its origin, there is more than one version (Greek, Ligurian, mixed), but the fact remains: this suffix formed adjectives, and in the Romanian language it became patronymic. He became popular with the elite and initially met only among her, later urban residents began to acquire surnames from this group. It is less common in rural areas.

It was also joined by persons of non-Romanian origin in the 19th - early 20th centuries, who lived on the national outskirts, for example, residents of the north of Bukovina and Bulgarians in the south. Hearing examples:

Petrescu, Vasilescu, Ionescu, Ceaușescu, Popescu, Pârvulescu, Cristescu

Surname distribution

Below we provide two lists of the most popular Romanian and Moldovan surnames.

Romanian

Moldovan

As can be seen from the list, in Romania most common surnames- Popescu and Popa (in Russian it is something like "popovich" and "pop"), and in Moldova - Rusu (apparently, a native of Russia). You can also notice that the Moldavian ones often acquired the Russian ending -р instead of the traditional -ру.

Romanian surnames, male and female, have the property of immutability. Therefore, if you see a man with a female name, most likely this is a surname. This can be confusing if you are used to putting it after the name - Romanians do it. Sometimes initialization can help, because usually initials are used instead of a name.

have experienced a strong influence of the Russian language and culture, and therefore they can be distinguished from the Romanian ones, although under the influence of unionism the situation may change.

On the net you can find more than forty thousand Romanian surnames, an alphabetical list, as well as the features of their transliteration from Cyrillic to Latin.

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