A surname is not just an “application” to a person. This is a business card that allows you to pre-position yourself. And if previously born under an inconsistent surname was forced to wear it to the grave, now everyone has the right to choose a beautiful surname. And what’s important: both women and men can change it.

Russian beautiful surnames for girls

Among the billions of inhabitants of the planet, you can find carriers of both beautiful surnames and those who do not feel much joy from its sound. We will not talk about the long-suffering Vagins (emphasis on the first syllable), the Pistrunkins, as well as the popular Smirnovs, Ivanovs and Petrovs. We propose to study the issue associated with beautiful surnames of Russian and foreign origin.

Surnames originate in antiquity. In Russia, only representatives of the noble classes had the right to wear them. This privilege was granted to peasants at about the same time that serfdom was abolished.

It was in those days that the surname was a "continuation" of its carrier. It was appropriated on the basis of a kind of activity, profession, appearance or characteristic qualities of a person.

Now the surname plays the role of an identification, while not having an energetic connection with the owner. Therefore, if it seems to you that it does not combine with the name or does not suit you at all, you can safely change it to a more harmonious one.

Below is a list of Russian female surnames that are harmonious and beautiful:

  • Abramova;
  • Averina;
  • Alexandrova;
  • Andreeva;
  • Anisimova;
  • Arkadyev;
  • Arkhipova;
  • Barinova;
  • Bezrukova;
  • Belokrylova;
  • Berdinsky;
  • Berestov;
  • Bogdanova;
  • Bondarenko;
  • Bratislava;
  • Vasnetsova;
  • Vershinin;
  • Vishnevskaya;
  • Vladova;
  • Volkova;
  • Volochkova;
  • Voloshchuk;
  • Vysotskaya;
  • Galaktionova;
  • Golitsyna;
  • Generalova;
  • Gorodetskaya;
  • Gronskaya;
  • Darova;
  • Dementieva;
  • Demidov;
  • Denisova;
  • Dobrovolskaya;
  • Dubrovskaya;
  • Efimova;
  • Starry;
  • Ivanova;
  • Ivleva;
  • Ignatova;
  • Istomin;
  • Kamenskaya;
  • Kanaeva;
  • Karamzin;
  • Kovalevskaya;
  • Koval;
  • Kovalchuk;
  • Kozhevnikov;
  • Koltsova;
  • Konovalova;
  • Queen;
  • Kotova;
  • Krasnova;
  • Kruchinin;
  • Kulikovskaya;
  • Larina;
  • Lebedev;
  • Levchenko;
  • Lenskaya;
  • Lyonova;
  • Lithuanian;
  • Makarova;
  • Maksimchuk;
  • Malinovskaya;
  • Malysheva;
  • Malyarova;
  • Marchenko;
  • Maslova;
  • Matveeva;
  • Menshov;
  • Merkulova;
  • Mechnikov;
  • Minaeva;
  • Navar
  • Nazarova;
  • Novak;
  • Novikov;
  • Novitskaya;
  • Novoshinskaya;
  • Oblomov;
  • Orlova;
  • Oryol;
  • Ostrovskaya;
  • Platonov;
  • China;
  • Polyakova;
  • Potapov;
  • Preobrazhenskaya;
  • Rare;
  • Rzhevskaya;
  • Rodochinskaya;
  • Rozhina;
  • Romanova;
  • Rubentsova;
  • Rudenko;
  • Safarova;
  • Sakharov;
  • Simonov;
  • Snowy;
  • Sokolova;
  • Sokolovich;
  • Sofia;
  • Sochi;
  • Tarasova;
  • Timofeev;
  • Tolmachev;
  • Travnikova;
  • Tretyakov;
  • Ulyanova;
  • Fedoseyev;
  • Khovanskaya;
  • Tchaikovsky;
  • Chernyshov;
  • Chekhov;
  • Shanskaya;
  • Shapovalova;
  • Shevchenko;
  • Shorokhov.

It is important to understand that a surname, like a name, has its own energy background. Therefore, choosing a new one, it will not be superfluous to study the history of its appearance, as well as the biography of its most prominent carriers.

Beautiful Russian surnames can make the female image more refined, graceful. They can become a happy ticket to life: they will allow you to build a successful career, personal life. But choosing a surname, it is worthwhile to understand that it must be in perfect harmony, both with the name and with the middle name. Therefore choose wisely and carefully.

Male last names of Russian origin

Male surnames, as well as female surnames, should not only be pleasant to the ear. A distinctive feature of the harmony of male surnames can be called their inner strength. Frequent and parallels with famous historical figures.

Below you will find only a small part of the beautiful surnames worn by Russian men:

  • Yartsev;
  • Sviridov;
  • Yarov;
  • Yaguzhinsky;
  • Yuriev;
  • Chesmensky;
  • Yumatov;
  • Julian;
  • Efron
  • Emin;
  • Hellenic;
  • Shestinsky;
  • Chernyshevsky;
  • Khmelevsky;
  • Florinsky;
  • Firsov;
  • Fog;
  • Trubetskoy;
  • Yaropolsky;
  • Tarasov;
  • Yampolsky;
  • Satellite;
  • Speransky;
  • Spassky;
  • Slavinsky;
  • Scythian;
  • Siberian;
  • Preobrazhensky;
  • Savransky;
  • Rostov;
  • Ross
  • Romanovsky;
  • Rosin;
  • Filatov;
  • Sollertinsky;
  • Rodionov;
  • Paradise
  • Glad;
  • Putin
  • Polonsky;
  • Fireflower;
  • Pokrovsky;
  • Pechersky;
  • Ostrovsky;
  • Oryol;
  • Oleinik;
  • Lakes;
  • Odoevsky;
  • Trinity;
  • Oginsky;
  • Obolensky;
  • Oblonsky;
  • Novgorod;
  • Upland;
  • Mikhailovsky;
  • Theological;
  • Bogatyrev;
  • Meshchersky;
  • Metelsky;
  • Ices;
  • Lanskoy;
  • Ladomirsky;
  • Crimean;
  • Kovalevsky;
  • Scribe;
  • Zlatoum;
  • Zlatopolsky;
  • Zlatogorsk;
  • Jezersky;
  • Dumov;
  • Danilevsky;
  • Rzhevsky;
  • Gronsky;
  • Grazian
  • Granin;
  • Grammar;
  • Hailstones;
  • Goncharov;
  • Glinsky;
  • Glinka
  • Glagolev;
  • Gilyarovsky;
  • Gedianov;
  • Garanin;
  • Vortex;
  • Vilensky;
  • Verkhovsky;
  • Vertogradsky;
  • Vertinsky;
  • Angelic;
  • Amursky;
  • Vereshchagin;
  • The Veltists;
  • Lebedinsky;
  • Larin;
  • Varlamov;
  • Walewski;
  • Vagankov;
  • Vavilov;
  • Bulgakov;
  • Borisoglebsky;
  • Bolkonsky;
  • Bisarov;
  • Bestuzhev;
  • Domansky;
  • Dolinin;
  • Golden eagles;
  • Belsky;
  • Belogradsky;
  • Belinsky;
  • Bakurin;
  • Bagirov;
  • Akhmatov;
  • Arsky;
  • Aristov;
  • Apraskin;
  • Annensky;
  • Admirals
  • Aurorin.

If you read carefully, you could notice that many of the names on the list belong to literary or historical figures. Therefore, choosing a surname, it is worth considering whether you can meet it, albeit conditional, but high requirements.

List of the most beautiful foreign female surnames

Having said that many women are dreaming of a foreigner’s husband, we will not open a new planet. But for most ladies, dreams remain dreams.

Fortunately, you can change your own surname to any, and therefore to one that has a foreign origin. The most popular are foreign surnames with English, American and German roots.

“Trying on” a foreign surname on oneself, one should worry about the question of how it is translated. Not all of them carry a beautiful meaning, despite the audible euphoria.

The surnames of the USA will help try on the image of the American lady to the fair sex.

They are educated, most often, according to one of three principles:

  • Relation to relatives, most often along the line of father - son: Wilson, Robinson, Nelson, Watson. These surnames indicate that its owner is the son of Will, Nelson, etc.
  • Indication of place of work or field of activity: Clark - Secretary; Taylor - the tailor; Smith is a blacksmith; Cooper - Cooper; Walker is a walker; Scott is an ascetic.
  • Indication of a distinctive feature in character or appearance: Thompson is a double; Brown is brown; Harris - lucky; Allen is beautiful; Rogers is glorious.

English surnames from those described above differ only in insignificant details, but even among them there are sonorous, beautiful or famous throughout the world:

  • Anderson, Benson, Levinson - sons of Anders, God, Levi.
  • Austin, Baldwin, Donovan, Dean, Ford, Gilbert - names that indicate character traits.

German surnames have also been formed from time immemorial, proceeding from the personal qualities of the carrier or its other distinctive features:

  • Indication of place of work or field of activity: Wagner - manufacturer of wheels for carts; Fisher - a fisherman, a seller of fish; Schneider - the tailor; Kaufman is a merchant.
  • Relation to the place of birth: Riger is a native of Riga.
  • Indication of a distinctive feature in character or appearance: Krieger is warlike; Sommer - summer; Ergard - strong-willed; Lehmann - resembling a rock; Schulz - the chief; Stark is powerful.

Beautiful foreign surnames for men

And of course, beautiful names for men. Although wait ...

Foreign surnames are good in that there is no gender distinction.

Accordingly, the name Kaufman can carry both a woman and a man.

Therefore, if you select a beautiful surname for a strong half of humanity, feel free to see the principles of selection in the text above.

Interesting ideas for social networks

Creating a page on social networks does not necessarily indicate your own last name and first name. It is there, on the Internet, you can become anyone.

Of course, you should not make doubles of stars or start a page of a long-dead idol. But to try on your own new second "I" in the first place is precisely there.

By what principle are the surnames for social networks usually selected? Once again, it is worth being guided by the nature, occupation, purpose of the profile. Of course, no one forbids referring to the favorite season and so on.

Here the fantasy can be limitless:

  • Spring;
  • Talismanov;
  • Moscow;
  • Ram;
  • DOREMi.

For couples, for lovers, there is also a very interesting, but far from new, way that simplifies the choice of surname for social networks. Relation to the name of the one you love. For example, Galya Leshina or Lesha Galin.

Table: Top last names by alphabet

And since the topic has come up with beautiful surnames, we cannot but mention those that have been the most common for many years. What can I say, Belinsky in modern society is much smaller than Smirnovs and Ivanovs.

Back in 2005, the Russian linguist A.F. Zhuravlev revealed a list of the most common or, as it is fashionable to say now, top names. We will present them in the alphabetical list to simplify the search for the desired option.

Introducing the TOP 20 most common Russian surnames:

SurnameFrequencyRank
Alekseev0,3646013
Vasiliev0,49484
Volkov0,363612
Egorov0,322916
Ivanov1,00001
Kozlov0,313918
Kuznetsov0,70113
Lebedev0,343114
Mikhailov0,39558
Morozov0,363911
Nikolaev0,300520
Novikov0,37439
Pavlov0,322617
Petrov0,48856
Popov0,53344
Semenov0,334515
Smirnov0,74122
Sokolov0,46667
Stepanov0,301619
Fedorov0,366210