Surname
Putin
“way, path, road”
Putin is a surname from Russian. It is used in English and Polish.
Original RussianПутин
Meaning & origin
What it means
Putin is a romanization of Путин. Путин goes back to a word meaning “way, path, road.”
Explained through its name family
Putin’s family of names
In Czech usage, Putin as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Dutch form Poetin. Putin as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the French form Poutine. In English usage, Putin as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Vietnamese form Pu-tin.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Putin has relatives in 58 languages. Lines run from its Russian roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 43
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Пу́тинRussian, Bulgarian
- 普京Chinese, Mandarin
- PoutineFrench
- 普丁borrowing · Chinese, Mandarin
- ΠούτινGreek
- Pu-tinVietnamese
- پۇتىنUyghur
- Пу́тінUkrainian
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- ཕུའུ་ཅིངbo
- ปูตินThai
- பூட்டின்Tamil
- පුටින්Sinhala
- पुटिन्Sanskrit
- پوتينPashto
- ᠫᠦ᠋ᠲ᠋ᠢᠨMongolian
- პუტინიxmf, Georgian
- पुतिनMarathi, Hindi
- PutyinHungarian
- PutinasLithuanian
- PutinsLatvian
- ປູຕິນlo
- Putînkmr
- 뿌찐Korean
- ពូទីនKhmer
- پۋتينKazakh
- ಪುತಿನ್Kannada
- プーチンJapanese
- PútínIcelandic
- פוטיןHebrew
- PoetinDutch
- PutinoEsperanto
- Поутинъcu
- 普亭Mandarin
- 普廷Mandarin
- ပူတင်Burmese
- Пу́цінBelarusian
- পুতিনBengali
- پوتِنacw
- بُوتِينArabic
- פּוטיןYiddish
- ПуцінBelarusian
- پوتنUrdu
- بوتينArabic
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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