Given name · Ukrainian
Семен
Семен (Semén) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek, ultimately from Proto-Semitic. It is used in Ukrainian.
UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Semen.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Семен comes from Ancient Greek, and ultimately from Proto-Semitic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ancient Greek Συμεών, from Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן, from Hebrew שָׁמַע, from Proto-Semitic *šamaʕ-.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Семен’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Семен has a conventional equivalent in the German form Simon. In Ukrainian usage, Семен has a transliteration in SEMEN. In Ukrainian usage, Семен can be written in the Roman alphabet as Semén.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Семен
- Semen Hulak-ArtemovskyUkrainian opera singer, composer, writer and musician (1813-1873)
- Semen SemenchenkoUkraine founder of military organizationborn 1974
- Semen Altmanfootball player and managerborn 1946
- Semen PaliyZaporozhian Cossack polkovnyk (colonel) (early 1640s–1710)1645–1710
- Semen Sopiha-1500
- Semen Vityk1876–1937
- Semyon HitlerSoviet soldier (1922–1942)
- Semyon Zelenskyysoviet-Ukrainian infantryman (1924–1993)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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