Given name & surname
Sergej
Sergej is a masculine given name. It is used in German and Slovak.
Original RussianСергей
Meaning & origin
Sergej’s family of names
In German usage, Sergej has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Sergio. In German usage, Sergej has a conventional equivalent in the English form Sergey. In German usage, Sergej has a conventional equivalent in the French form Serge.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Sergej has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Russian roots to each of them.
Russianwhere Sergej comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 17
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sergej
- Sergej Milinković-SavićSerbian association football playerborn 1995
- Sergej BarbarezBosnian association football player and managerborn 1971
- Sergej ĆetkovićMontenegrin singerborn 1976
- Sergej JakirovićBosnian football manager (born 1976)
- Sergej KraigherYugoslav politician (1914-2001)
- Sergej TrifunovićSerbian actorborn 1972
- Sergey ErenburgRussian-Israeli American chess playerborn 1983
- Sergej MoyaGerman actor and screenwriterborn 1987
- Sergej MašeraYugoslav naval officer (1912–1941)
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