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[Opinions] Re: Names with nicknames that start with a different letter

by Anya Mel’nik or Mel’nyk (Tovaryshka_Anya)

5/10/2025, 8:26 PM

in reply to a message by molly

Many nicknames of my country:

Mykola / Nikolay: Kolya
Anton / Antonina: Tonya
Anastasiya: Stasya, Nastya, Nyura, Nastasya
Olena / Yelena: Alyona, Lena, Lesya, sometimes also Lyalya can be short form
Aleksey: Lyosha, Lyokha
Artem / Artyom: Tyoma
Akim: Kima
Oksana: Ksanka
Kseniya: Senya
Anatoliy: Tolya
Arsen / Arseniy: Senya
Ivan: Vanya
Bohdan / Bohdana / Bogdan / Bohdana: Danya, Dana
Ihor: Horya, Hosha
Yelyzaveta / Yelizaveta: Lyza / Liza, Lyzaveta / Lizaveta
Oleksandr / Oleksandra / Aleksandr / Aleksandra: Sanya, Sasha, Lesya (girl only)
Svitlana / Svetlana: Lana
Melaniya: Lanya
Olha / Olga: Lesya
Odarka: Darka, Darya
Veronika: Nika
Ruslana: Lana
Valeriya: Lera
Anhelina: Helya
Dmytro / Dmitriy / Dmytriy: Mitya
Yevgeniy / Yevgeniya: Zhenya, Genya
Lyudmyla / Lyudmila: Myla / Mila

These are very old name but Seva is short for Vsevolod and Dots is short for Yevdokym
Dunya is short for Avdotya

Slava is nickname for name that end in -slav, like Rostyslav, Stanislav, Yaroslav / Yaroslava, Vladyslav

ETA: Katya is short for Yekaterina. I forgot this one :)

This message was edited 5/11/2025, 10:18 AM

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