Anastasia Zavorotnyuk with her daughter Mila and her husband Pyotr Chernyshev. 2019 Photo: frame from the NTV channel.
The other day, popular artist Yevgeny Petrosyan, when asked by journalists to explain why he and his wife gave their daughter an unusual name, reacted with emotion: “Why not Matilda? What kind of protest does this provoke in you? Stars often choose unusual names for their heirs. And they rarely appear on the list of the most popular names among their fans. The KP.RU website has compiled a list of names of newborns from star families over the past 10 years.
year 2014
Alexander is the son of television presenter Alexander Gordon and director Noza Abdulvasieva.
Alisa is the daughter of musician and businessman Timati and model Alena Shishkova.
Anastasia is the daughter of Christina Asmus and Garik Kharlamov.
Lyubava is the daughter of actress Lyubov Tikhomirova and director Laszlo Dolinski.
Maria is the daughter of singer MakSim and businessman Anton Petrov.
Nadezhda is the daughter of Olympic champion Tatyana Navka and press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.
Peter is the son of actors Ekaterina Vilkova and Ilya Lyubimov.
Sofia-Karolina is the daughter of actors Igor Petrenko and Kristina Brodskaya.
Fedor is the son of actors Agnia Ditkovskite and Alexey Chadov.
2015
Actress Natalya Medvedeva and her husband, actor and television writer Alexander Koptel, went to a consultant to choose a name. She made a selection of 12 names for them, explaining the meaning of each one. The actress believes that the name influences her character, and if she had not called her eldest son Ilya, but Mark, she would have been “completely uncontrollable”, given that the child is already “quite active and demanding.” .
Artemy is the son of musicians Vladimir Presnyakov and Natalia Podolskaya. He and the son of actress Valeria Lanskaya and director Stas Ivanov.
Bella is the daughter of actresses Ekaterina Klimova and Gela Meskhi.
Valeria is the daughter of TV presenter Ivan Urgant and Natalya Kiknadze.
Veronica is the daughter of the composer Igor Nikolaev and the actress Yulia Proskuryakova.
Ivan is the son of singer Victoria Makarskaya and actor Anton Makarsky.
Ilya is the son of television presenter Dmitry Dibrov and model Polina Dibrova.
Olivia is the daughter of singer Keti Topuria and businessman Lev Geykhman.
Stefania is the daughter of actress Daria Sagalova and businessman Konstantin Maslennikov.
2016
Newborns are often named after the previous generation in the family. Singer Jasmine says: “All my children are named after their grandparents. In fact, nothing special was invented. I believe that in my life with Ilan there are guardian angels: these are my mother and her father, who considered it necessary for those children to whom we named after them to be born. All the singer’s children are named after the letter “M”: Mikhail, Margarita, and in 2016 her son Miron was born.
The same story happened in the Alsou family (now she is divorcing her husband, and then businessman Yan Abramov was happy to have two daughters and a son was born): they decided to name their son Rafael: in honor of his father. husband and in honor of his grandfather’s dad line.
Alexandra is the daughter of actors Konstantin Khabensky and Olga Litvinova.
Anatoly is the son of the director of the fashion house Valentin Yudashkin, Galina Yudashkina and businessman Pyotr Maksakov.
Glafira is the daughter of actors Maria Poroshina and Ilya Drevnov.
Darina is the daughter of television presenter Marina Kim, who keeps the name of her children’s father a secret.
Ekaterina is the daughter of television presenter Maria Sittel and businessman Alexander Tereshchenko.
Mike is the son of actress Olesya Sudzilovskaya and businessman Sergei Dzeban.
Maria is the daughter of actor Sergei Bezrukov and director Anna Matison.
Mia is the daughter of actors Agata Muceniece and Pavel Priluchny.
Plato is the son of presenter Ksenia Sobchak.
Severina is the daughter of director Valeria Gai-Germainika, who gave her her last name and is raising the girl without the help of her father.
Fedor is the son of actors Yulia Snigir and Evgeny Tsyganov.
2017
Alexander is the son of television presenter Andrei Malakhov and editor Natalya Shkuleva.
Amelia is the daughter of pop stars Yulia Kovalchuk and Alexey Chumakov.
Anna is the daughter of the singer Yulia Savicheva and the composer Alexander Arshinov.
Vera is the daughter of singer Anastasia Stotskaya and businessman Sergei Abgaryan.
Hector is the son of singer Anna Sedokova, who raises the boy without the participation of his father.
Evgeniy is the son of singer Natalie and producer Alexander Rudin.
Yesenia is the daughter of footballer Andrei Arshavin and Alisa Kazmina.
Christian is the son of Sveta Svetikova and acrobat figure skater Alexey Polishchuk.
Lev is the son of singer Nadezhda Ruchka and manager Denis Boyarko.
Maya is the daughter of blogger Oksana Samoilova and singer Dzhigan. And also the actress Elena Zakharova, who raises her daughter alone.
Maria is the daughter of actress Anna Banshchikova and lawyer Vsevolod Shakhanov. She and she also the daughter of radio presenter Alla Dovlatova and officer Alexei Boroda. She and she also have a daughter, the daughter of actors Igor Petrenko and Kristina Brodskaya.
Mia is the daughter of the artist Polina Gagarina and the photographer Dmitry Iskhakov.
Taisiya is the daughter of singer Pelagia and hockey player Ivan Telegin.
Ulyana is the daughter of Marina Devyatova and businessman Alexey Pigurenko.
Emma is the daughter of actress Oksana Akinshina and producer Archil Gelovani.
Sergei Zhukov with his youngest son Evan. Photo: Sergei Zhukov Telegram Channel.
2018
Actress Anastasia Zavorotnyuk explained the choice of name for her daughter: “Mila is her full name, but it derives from Lyudmila. This is a fabulous story. I say: “Petya, she will be a girl. What should we call it? Let’s go Mila Chernysheva.” And it sounded so good that no other name was considered.” The choice of the name was not accidental: before and during pregnancy, Zavorotnyuk often attended the rehearsals of the ice play “Ruslan and Lyudmila”, where her husband Pyotr Chernyshev skated with Tatyana Navka: hence Mila, as a derivative of Lyudmila.
And TV presenter Lera Kudryavtseva and hockey player Igor Makarov chose the name of their daughter like this: “My husband and I agreed that if she looks like me, we will call her Alice. And if she is for him, Masha. She was born “daddy’s daughter” and all questions disappeared immediately.
Grigory is the son of actors Elizaveta Boyarskaya and Maxim Matveev.
Maria is the daughter of actress Anna Khilkevich and businessman Arthur Volkov.
Mark is the son of musician Dmitry Malikov and Elena Malikova.
Milana is the daughter of blogger Anastasia Kostenko and footballer Dmitry Tarasov.
Serafima-Simba is the daughter of singer Nyusha and businessman Igor Sivov.
Sergei is the son of hockey player Alexander Ovechkin and model Anastasia Shubskaya.
Stepan is the son of actor Sergei Bezrukov and director Anna Matison.
2019
Sometimes the decision to choose a name is very surprising, as in the case of Marc-Lionel, son of the model Victoria Lopyreva and the businessman Igor Bulatov. Mom explained her ingenuity this way: “We chose our baby’s first name, Mark, a long time ago, as both I and I had Marks in our family. The name is laconic and strong. As the boy, whose mother loves football so much, was born on February 5, the same day as Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar, we took this as a sign and decided that the middle name would be Lionel, or Leo, like Messi.”
Andrey is the son of actress Maria Poroshina, whom she raises alone.
Veronica is the daughter of actors Konstantin Khabensky and Olga Litvinova.
Eva is the daughter of actors Igor Petrenko and Kristina Brodskaya.
Fedor is the son of actress Maria Mironova and businessman Andrei Soroka.
2020
It happens that stars simply make up names. Author and musician Alexander Stepanov (rapper ST) and his wife, TV presenter Assol, managed to come up with her beautiful name. Alexander explained that the parents simply combined parts of their names: “Estel Aleksandrovna Stepanova – ST and Assol, that’s exactly what Estel turns out to be.”
Arseny is the son of producer Yana Rudkovskaya and Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko.
Vagan is the son of folk artist Yevgeny Petrosyan and his director Tatyana Brukhunova.
Veronica is the daughter of artist Marina Kravets and TNT general producer Arkady Vodakhov.
David is the son of blogger Oksana Samoilova and singer Dzhigan.
Eva is the daughter of blogger Anastasia Kostenko and footballer Dmitry Tarasov.
Ivan is the son of musicians Vladimir Presnyakov and Natalia Podolskaya.
Ilya is the son of hockey player Alexander Ovechkin and model Anastasia Shubskaya.
Catherine is the daughter of figure skaters Yulia Lipnitskaya and Vladislav Tarasenko.
Lev is the son of singer Valery Syutkin and Viola Syutkina. And he is also the son of Channel One CEO Konstantin Ernst and actress Sofia Ernst.
Leon is the son of bloggers Ida Galich and Alan Basiev.
Mikhail is the son of actors Olga Sutulova and Evgeny Stychkin.
Sofia is the daughter of actor Evgeny Kulik and Rigina Gaisina.
Philip is the son of the creator of the children’s film magazine “Yeralash”, Boris Grachevsky, and actress Ekaterina Belotserkovskaya.
Evgeny Petrosyan and Tatyana Brukhunova with their son Vagan (named after the father of the People’s Artist) and daughter Matilda. Photo: social networks of Tatyana Brukhunova
2021
Singer Yulianna Karaulova and her husband, producer Andrei Cherny, named their son Alexander, but at home they call him Alex, and never Sasha. Yulianna explained it this way: They say, Alejandro, this is a very strong name and they don’t want to reduce its strength by using derived names that are not the same root.
Adam is the son of singer Keti Topuria and businessman Lev Dengov.
Alexey: blogger Anastasia Kostenko and footballer Dmitry Tarasov.
Danila is the son of actors Tatyana Arntgolts and Mark Bogatyrev.
Ivan is the son of director and producer Fyodor Bondarchuk and actress Paulina Andreeva.
Lev is the son of actress Elizaveta Arzamasova and figure skater and producer Ilya Averbukh.
Luka is the son of singer Olga Seryabkina and businessman Georgy Nachkebia.
Safron is the son of singer Nyusha and businessman and blogger Igor Sivov.
Tikhon is the son of television presenter Dmitry Shepelev and designer Ekaterina Tulupova.
Dmitry Shepelev and his youngest son Tikhon. Photo: social networks of Dmitry Shepelev.
2022
Nika is the daughter of chef and television presenter Konstantin Ivlev and blogger Valeria Kudenkova.
Tina is the daughter of rapper Guf and blogger Yulia Koroleva.
Yakov is the son of actors Olga Sutulova and Evgeny Stychkin.
2023
Alexander is the son of actor Sergei Astakhov and Victoria Savkeeva.
Anna is the daughter of television presenter and singer Olga Orlova and businessman Valery Masalov.
Alicia is the daughter of singers Yulia Kovalchuk and Alexey Chumakov.
Demyan is the son of singer Elena Katina and businessman Dmitry Spiridonov.
Camilla is the daughter of singer Hannah and businessman Pavel Kuryanov.
Lev is the son of singer Katya Iova and guitarist Leonid Tereshchenko.
Laura is the daughter of the blogger Karina Istomina and the footballer Fyodor Smolov.
Matilda is the daughter of folk artist Yevgeny Petrosyan and his director Tatyana Brukhunova.
Mikael is the son of actors Pavel Priluchny and Zepyur Brutyan.
Stefania is the daughter of television presenter Dmitry Khrustalev and singer Maria Goncharuk.
Teresa is the daughter of actors Pavel Trubiner and Yulia Melnikova.
Evan is the son of singer and businessman Sergei Zhukov and businesswoman Regina Burd.
Elizabeth is the daughter of actress Elizaveta Moryak and director Sarik Andreasyan.
Olga Orlova named her daughter Anna. This name has firmly established itself in third place among the most popular female names among Muscovites. Photo: social networks of Olga Orlova. .
By 2024, children will have been born in several families. In the family of the youth idol, blogger Vlad A4 Bumaga, he has a daughter, Olivia. TV presenter Elena Nikolaeva has a son, Roman, and Marina Kravets has a daughter, Valeria. Actor Vladimir Selivanov has a son, Kirill. Model, star of the TV show “The Bachelor” Daria Klyukina gave birth to a son, Alexander, actress Anna Starshenbaum gave birth to a son, Eric, TV presenter Assol gave birth to the musician’s daughter Alexander Stepanov (ST), Elsa.
Interestingly, among all newborn boys in Moscow, the name Alexander became the record holder – he was the most popular for 30 years. Only three times during this time Alexander lost first place: in 2023, Mikhail became the leader, and in 2012 and 2014, the first position was occupied by the name Artem. And among the girls, the top three has already lasted 10 years: Sofía (Sofía) has always been first, and María and Anna occupy second and third place. Interestingly, in the last 10 years, only Andrei Malakhov, Sergei Astakhov, Alexander Gordon and Daria Klyukina chose the name of the leader Alexander for their children. And Sophia has only two stars in 10 years: in the families of actors Evgeny Kulik and Igor Petrenko.
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