What do we do?!

[ellenvysotsky]

Hello! As you can all tell by my surname, my husband is Russian, born and raised in Moscow. I'm an English girl from Leeds, and my husband and I have run into some problems regarding names for our upcoming son: I want to call him something traditionally British (Joseph or James), he wants to call him Valentin or Vasili (Russified version of "Basil")

What do we do? Do we go with British or Russian? Help!

Can you try something like Alexander or Nicholas?

Yes, go with something that works in both languages. Stefan is lovely I think.

I have a half Russian relative. Born in Russia to Russian mum and English dad. She has a name which works in both languages. There are plenty.

I like Vasili.

Compromise on a name that works in both languages

E.g. Alexander/Aleksandar, Adam, Daniel, Eduard/Edward, Grigory/Gregory, Ivan, Joseph, Simeon, Timofey/Timothy

I think go British as he has Russian surname so he's a bit of both of his parents :-)

Vasili is cool !

What about Nikolai?

Sacha as a diminutive of Alexander ?

I love Russian names - Valentin, Vasili, Sacha, Nikolai, Anton, Alexei, Aleksandr, Andrei, Konstatin, Liev, are all gorgeous and not difficult in English.

But like pp say, a good compromise would be something that sounds similar in both languages.

I've had this convo with my DP who is Polish. We agreed on a name that works in both english and Polish but as we live in the Uk the name is spelt the English way to make school easier x