Names

As I the number of pregnant friends of mine seems to be growing practically daily, I find myself discussing names a lot. I love these conversations and hearing different names and why people like certain names. But then I thought about my students names. I thought some of you in the great U.S of A. might get a kick out of it. So here are my kids names, hope you get a good laugh.

(Given name) (shorter name they go by) (how many in that class)
Preschool:
Maria (Masha) (3)
Eva (1)
Tate (1)
Daniel (Danya) (1)
Mikael (Misha) (4)
Maxim (Max) (1)
Elijah (1)
Tatiana (Tanya) (1)
Igor (1)
Alexandra (Sasha) (1)
Arkosta (1)
Alicia (1)

1st grade
Daria (Dasha) (2)
Sonya (3)
Nikoli (Nikita) (1)
Daury (1)
Artem (2)
Daniel (Danya) (1)
Yagor (1)
Edgar (1)
Igor (1)
Nikoli (Kolia) (1)
Anastasia (Anna) (1)
Alexander (Sasha) (1)
Alexander (Alex) (1)
Phillip (1)
Natasha (Natalia) (1)
Sebastian (Seva) (1)
Gorsha (1)

2nd grade:
Nina (1)
Katerina (Katia) (1)
Anastasia (Nastya) (2)
Anastasia (Anna) (2)
Nikol (1)
Maria (Masha) (1)
Vladamir (Vova) (1)
Mark (1)
Igor (1)
Platon (1)
Ivan (Vanya) (2)
Maxim (Max) (2)
Alousha (Alex) (1)
Alouna (1)
Sergei (1)
Boris (Bori) (1)
Korney (1)

3rd grade:
Anastasia (Nastya) (1)
Anastasia (Ann) (1)
Anastasia (Anna) (3)
Anastasia (Stasya) (1)
Adely (1)
Arina (1)
Alina (1)
Sonya (1)
Sofia (1)
Maxim (Max) (1)
Andrei (1)
Robert (1)
Stas (1)
Alexander (Sasha) (1)
Ivan (Vanya) (1)
Savely (Sava) (1) (I think he is my favorite student)

4th grade:
Xushia (Ksenya) (1)
Anastasia (Anna) (3)
Anastasia (Nastya) (1)
Alouna (1)
Polina (1)
Phillip (1)
Maxim (1)
Artem (2)
Dima (1)
Andrei (1)
(?) (Beka) (1) (its a boy)
Nikoli (Nikita) (1)
Alexander (Alex and Sasha)
Alexander (Sasha) (2)
Vladamir (Vova) (1)
Yuraslav (Yura) (1)


I think I probably forgot some. But they are probably repeats anyway. There are only like 2 dozen boy and 2 dozen girl names as part of the Russian language and culture. Crazy! I feel like they need a little more creativity in their lives!