Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
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Southern Charm,
Western Passion
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 16,618
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Re: Russia Has First Post-Soviet Baby Boom
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Originally Posted by Gottslav
The fact is such names as Diana got into relatively massive use -- it's still not widely popular -- just 20 years ago or so and are more popular with people of Armenian or Georgian descent.
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Here too some sector of the population are using weird names like Yessica (Jessica), Yosua (Joshua) or Vanessa. It's mainly related to converts to the Evangelical movement, which is mostly Gypsies.
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