30 names were popular during birth registration of children in Ukraine in 2009.

The press service of the Justice Ministry of Ukraine disclosed this to UNIAN.

According to the words of Justice Minister of Ukraine Mykola Onyshchuk, the most popular names, which were given to newly-born boys, were the following: Nazar, Danylo, Maksym, Vladyslav, Mykyta, Artem, Kyrylo, Egor, Ilya, Andriy, Bohdan, Denis, Dmytro, Yaroslav, Oleksandr, Volodymyr. The most popular names, which were given to newly-born girls, were the following – Anastasia, Sophia, Angelina, Alina, Daryna, Diana, Kateryna, Maria, Natalia, Yulia, Victoria, Elizabeth, Anna, Veronica, Ulyana, Oleksandra, Hrystyna.

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At the same time the following name also became popular in 2009: man’s names: Ivan, Marc, Lev, Naum, Timur, Mykhaylo, Zahariy and Oscar. The woman’s name: Oksana, Tatiana, Valeria, Zlata, Karina, Eva, Salomea, Nikol. These names were registered in vast majority of regions.

There were also some rare and non-traditional names, it is said in the report.

For example, at the registration offices, the following names were registered:

In Crimea: Lyubistina, Apollinaria, Trophim;

In the Vinnytsa Oblast: Evnika, Slavyana, Savva;

In the Volyn Oblast – Mria, Zlata Geval, Olimpiada, Fayzulla, Velizar;

In the Donetsk Oblast – Kukla, Parakseva, Ardalion, Mercedes;

In the Dnipropetrovsk Obalst – Aleyna, Devika, Kniginya, Mavlina, Svedana, Gerald, Izrail, Milord, Papusha, Ramzes, Rafael;

In the Zaporizhzhya Oblast – Elif-Alina, Serop, Sultan, Frank, Yanik;

In the Zakarpattya Oblast – Reka, Panna, Kitti, Yanukovych, Nopshugar, Botond, Aron-Bornobash, Chebo, Shchamuel, Kevin –Teo;

In the Ivano-Frankovsk – Tayana, Adam, Nestor;

In the Kyiv Oblast – Oscar, Afina, Fevrobia;

In the Kirovograd Oblast – Zehra, Lorenada, Histofor, Tzezar;

In Lugansk Oblast – Haritina, Luchezar;

In the Lviv Oblast – Madonna, Ionofan, Ascot;

In Mykolaiv Oblast – Malina, Jasmina, Adda, Zitta, Edelvays, Nektar, Hiddekel, Sterh;

In the Odesa Oblast – Shifaa Diana, Rozaliina, Kalina, Fialka, Chula, Isus, Eudit, Kyubanur, Prince;

In the Poltava Oblast – Gennadia, Platona, Rim, Vidadi, Efe, Raznik;

In the Rivne Oblast – Zhuzha, Maria-Svetozar, Svetozarya, Amir-Timur;

In the Sumy Oblast – Menuya, Lidgiya, Rumin;

In the Ternopil Oblast – Zamila, Lamar, Hristofor, Slosey;

In the Kharkiv Oblast – Halva, Matrona, Juliet, Likay, Maliy;

In the Kherson Oblast – Diamanta, Penelopa, Emir;

In the Cherkassy Oblast – Esmeralda, Evangilia, Tabita and Ioann;

In the Chernovtzy Oblast – Andreya, Maksima, Juliet, Filofteya, Natanuel, Vlasiy, Zhirardo-Adriyan;

In the Chernigiv Oblast – Hruslalina, Samara, Zdan-Korniliy;

In Kyiv – Dzvinka, Kassiopeya, Oleyana, Azell, Alladin, Brilliant, Radost, Solomon;

In Sevastopol – Venera, Disco, Nizami, Bogudar;