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There are men I could spend eternity with. But not life
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A man's house is his fortress, but only from the outside. Inside it is most often a children's room.
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A man does not think about himself only in those moments when he is sure that someone else thinks only of him.

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When a man feels bad, he looks for a woman, and when he feels good, he looks for another one.
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Women know that men are not as stupid as people think - they are more stupid
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A rake needs more subtle understanding of people to seduce a woman than Bismarck does to fool Europe
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The men who treat women with the most respect are rarely the most successful with them.

Joseph Addison

I remain under the impression that I made on a woman for a long time.
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A man is interested in women with a past: he hopes that history will repeat itself
Mae West

Men are like children: they like to be led by the hand, but considered big
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The male is the only male who beats his female

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Like every man, I carry with me a weapon of violence
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All men are the same, only their salary is different
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A bachelor is a man who managed not to find a wife
Antoine Prevost

Invented, too, matrimony! A real man needs a babysitter

Henrik Good

Men have sincere respect for everything that is boring
Marilyn Monroe

Dogs and men love sleeping the most
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There is no doubt: the more powerful a man, the more sexy he is.

Angie Dickinson

Men usually do not listen to what you say to them - they listen to what they are going to say themselves.
Wanda Blonskaya

A man with great virtues and intelligence is not ugly, even if he is ugly.
J. La Bruyère

The best way to get a man to do something is to hint to him that he is already too old for such things.
Shirley MacLaine

A man who speaks intelligently about love is not very in love. A real man hides a child who wants to play.

F. Nietzsche

Only a man who respects a woman can part with her without humiliating her.
U.S. Maugham

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothing.
A. France

Loyalty for a man is like a cage for a tiger. She is against his nature.
D.B. Show

Women treat us, men, the same way that humanity treats its gods: they worship us - and get bored, constantly demanding something.
O. Wilde

Women love to make stupid generalizations, and men love to generalize stupidly.
E.A. Kashcheev

The name of a person is not just a combination of sounds, it carries a secret meaning. Our ancestors believed that by naming the baby by any name, they endowed him with certain character traits and even fate. We offer you to get acquainted with the variety of identical male and female names, find out the reasons for their appearance, consider the list in Russian and English, learn brief information from other languages.

Reasons for the appearance

We know that there are names that can be called both boys and girls, for example, Alexander and Alexandra, Eugene and Eugenia, this phenomenon does not cause any surprise. But what is the reason for this coincidence? First of all, this is the tradition of naming children after Orthodox saints, which became firmly established in Russia after the adoption of Christianity. But since the saint is a specific person, a child of the same gender could be named in his honor. And the modification of a specific name helped to solve the problem.

The next factor that influenced the emergence of the same female and male names, a list of which will be presented below, is the unequal number of both in the Russian language. So, in the “Dictionary of Old Russian Proper Names” compiled by N. M. Tupikov, there are more than 5 thousand male variants, while female ones - 50. In 1891, the month-word contained 900 male and slightly more than 200 female names. Such inequality made it necessary to take the male variation and transform it into a female one.

A lot of names arose after the revolution, when a woman began to perform the same duties as a man. And the main source of such education was the male form. Hence, there is an almost complete coincidence (the key and often the only difference is the endings -а, -я in female variations, for example, Vladlen - Vladlen). As a result, the number of names for boys and girls in the language became almost equal.

Slavic variants

Let's get acquainted with what names can be both female and male. First of all, this is an ancient layer that came to us from the Slavs. In these times, great importance was attached to the naming of a person, people believed that the name given to a newborn would largely determine his character, occupation and fate. Most often, paired names in ancient times were given to twins. For example, if two babies were born at once, they could well be called Borislav and Borislav, these ancient variants appeared in honor of the god of the winds, Boreas.

Let's take a few more examples.

There were also options that completely coincided in sound, for example, Will - both a male and female name with the meaning of "free man", Share - with the meaning of "fate". Now they are almost out of use.

So, as we can see, female names were formed among the Slavs by adding the endings -a to the male ones, sometimes the process went in the opposite direction, then the suffix -k was added to the female form.

When trade with the Greeks appeared in Russia, after the adoption of Christianity, new names came along with overseas goods - Alexander (Alexandra), Julius and Julia, Anastasia and Anastasia.

From the point of view of paired names and names in general, the time after the revolution and the period of Soviet power is very interesting. It was then that many options appeared, some of them are used to this day (and not all owners know the “secret” of their occurrence), while others cannot cause anything but a smile. Let's get acquainted with Russian identical male and female names of the Soviet period. There are quite a few of them:

Barricade and Barricade came from the common noun and are not used now.
Vladilen and Vladilena, Wil and Vila, Vilen and Vilena, Vily and Vilya - from "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" in various abbreviations of the name and use of initials.
Vilor and Vilora trace their origins to the slogan that sounds like "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - Organizer of the Revolution."
Gertrude and Gertrude are the hero and heroine of labor, respectively. Interestingly, the Soviet version is in no way connected with the Western European Gertrude, an exclusively female name.
Krasarma and Krasarma - a strange name for a modern person comes from the "Red Army", as children were called in the 20-30s of the last century.
Lemar and Lemara - from two surnames, Lenin and Marx. And vice versa, Marilene and Marilena are from two surnames Marx and Lenin.
Lenin and Lenina (with an emphasis on the letter "i"), met in the 20-30s of the last century.
Tractor and Tractorina. These variants became very popular in 1923, when the first tractor was produced by the Soviet industry.

Here are two more funny options - Oyushminald and Oyushminalda, Chelnaldin and Chelnaldina - respectively, O. Yu. Schmidt and Chelyuskin on an ice floe. Most of the variants of this period are gone.

Modern Russians

Let's continue our acquaintance with paired names, in our time there are also quite a few of them. Their short list looks like this.

As you can see, most of the paired names almost completely have the same sound and meaning, only in some examples the subtleties of the meaning differ.

Foreign

Let's give examples of the same male and female names in English. This is Alex and Alexa, Christian and Christina. The name Alex has several more female counterparts - Alexis, Alexia. Two names come from the male "Adam" at once - Addison - the son of Adam and Addison - the daughter of Adam, their spelling is somewhat different. More examples:

Alan and Alanna - "beautiful" and "beautiful".
Bert and Berta - "bright, -th." There is also a female version of "Bertie" with a similar meaning.
Brandon and Brenda.
Brook - the male and female versions are the same, the name means "stream".
Daniel and Danielle.
Eric and Erica.
Gabriel and Gabriella.
George and Georgia.
Kyle and Kylie.
Michelle, both male and female name.
Nicholas and Nicole.
Patrick and Patricia.

These are the same male and female English names.

Examples from other languages

It is very interesting that paired names are found in so many languages of the world. For example, in Spanish there are variants of Alejandra and Alejandro, Carla and Carlos, Andrea and Andres, Claudia and Claudio, Haun and Juanita.

In African countries, names most often coincide, meaning the order or time of the birth of a child. For example:

Baako - born (born) first.
Dubaku is the 11th child in the family, both a girl and a boy.
Idouu - who appeared (appeared) into the world after the twins.

The Yakuts have a lot of paired names, who attached great importance to observing the tradition of naming the baby. For example, Ayaan - a name that could be worn by both boys and girls, has the meaning of "journey".

About the fate of a woman with a male name

Modern research has proven a strange fact - a woman whose name coincides with a man's name or has its form most often achieves serious success in life. With what it is connected, while it is not clear. There is a hypothesis that male names are taken more seriously by ear, therefore, such women have a completely different attitude, they are seen as strong, which on a subconscious level leaves its mark on their behavior. The greatest results await them in the legal sphere, politics.

These are the same male and female names, we made sure that their list is quite extensive.