Given name & surname · Russian
Ермолай
“Hermes of the people”·“people, crowd”
Ермолай (Jermoláj) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Russian.
RussianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Ermolaj.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ермолай is built from elements meaning “Hermes of the people” and “people, crowd”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ермолай’s family of names
In Russian usage, Ермолай has a diminutive in Ермак. In Russian usage, Ермолай has a transliteration in Ermolaj. In Russian usage, Ермолай can be written in the Roman alphabet as Jermoláj.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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