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Кристиян
Кристиян (Kristijan) is a masculine given name from Serbo-Croatian, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Bulgarian and Pannonian Rusyn.
Bulgarian and rskWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Christian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Кристиян comes from Serbo-Croatian, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Serbo-Croatian Кристијан//Kristijan, from Latin Chrīstiānus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστιᾱνός.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Кристиян’s family of names
In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Кристиян shares an earlier linguistic root with Християн. In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Кристиян has a conventional equivalent in the English form Christian. In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Кристиян can be written in the Roman alphabet as KRISTIJAN.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Кристиян has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
7 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
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.
People named Кристиян
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