Surname

Brežnev

Brežnev is a surname from Russian. It is used in Italian.

Original RussianБрежнев

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Brežnev comes from Russian.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Russian Бре́жнев.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Brežnev’s family of names

In Italian usage, Brežnev as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the French form BREJNEV. In Italian usage, Brežnev as a surname has a related form in BREZHNEV. In Lithuanian usage, Brežnev as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form BREZHNEV.

Walk Brežnev’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Brežnev has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Russian roots to each of them.

Russian

Russianwhere Brežnev comes from · 1 name

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

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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Sibling ideas

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