Statistics

A live count of the names in the database: gender, layer and sources of origin.

1520names in the database
119equivalence groups
93male and female name pairs
18sources of origin

Where the languages meet

Which languages the 119 equivalence groups connect. German and Russian names often share a source, while Uzbek names mostly go their own way.

  • In all three languages 8
  • German and Russian 95
  • Russian and Uzbek 15
  • German and Uzbek 1

A name with a counterpart in at least one of the other two languages counts as a “shared international name”; otherwise it belongs to the national-cultural layer.

Equivalence groups: German and Russian — 95, Russian and Uzbek — 15, German and Uzbek — 1, In all three languages — 8. German 519 names Russian 463 names Uzbek · 538 names 95 1 15 8

Each language on its own

German

519 names

By gender

  • Male259
  • Female259
  • Both1

Layers

  • International122
  • National397

Main sources of origin

  • Germanic 139
  • Latin 87
  • Greek 84
  • Hebrew 57
  • Scandinavian 39
  • Slavic 24
  • Other sources 89

Uzbek

538 names

By gender

  • Male261
  • Female272
  • Both5

Layers

  • International25
  • National513

Main sources of origin

  • Arabic 274
  • Persian (Iranian) 151
  • Turkic 97
  • Hebrew 9
  • Greek 3
  • Latin 3
  • Other sources 1

Russian

463 names

By gender

  • Male233
  • Female230

Layers

  • International127
  • National336

Main sources of origin

  • Greek 140
  • Slavic 97
  • Latin 86
  • Hebrew 40
  • Multiple sources 15
  • Germanic 15
  • Other sources 70