Datasets:

MentalTech
/

russian-given-names-nen

license: cc-by-4.0
language:
  - ru
pretty_name: Russian Given Names (NEN)
tags:
  - names
  - russian
  - onomastics
  - gazetteer
  - demographics
  - ner
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
task_categories:
  - token-classification
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/names.csv

Russian Given Names (NEN) — 1,551 names with meanings and ZAGS popularity

1,551 Russian given names (809 male, 742 female) with origin, short meaning, an editorial etymology note, diminutive and international forms, and popularity ranks among newborns based on open data from Moscow civil registry offices (ZAGS).

Curated by the editorial team of NEN («Нет, это нормально»), a Russian parenting magazine. Every record links to a full name page at n-e-n.ru/imena — the living catalog with a patronymic-based name picker.

Fields

Field	Type	Description
`name`	string	Given name («Александр»)
`gender`	`m` / `f`	Gender
`slug`	string	Stable ID, matches the name page URL
`url`	string	Name page at n-e-n.ru with the full reference
`origin`	string	Origin («древнегреческое»)
`meaning`	string	Short meaning (≤110 chars)
`about`	string	Editorial note: etymology and history — no astrology or "character by name" pseudoscience
`short_forms`	string	Diminutives, `;` -separated
`international_forms`	string	International counterparts, `;` -separated
`first_letter`	string	First letter
`letters_count`	int	Name length in letters
`popularity_place`	int	Rank among newborns (1 = most frequent; Moscow ZAGS open data)
`popularity_bucket`	`top` / `popular` / `medium` / `rare`	Popularity bucket (96 / 259 / 485 / 711 names)
`tags`	string	`классика`, `редкое`, `короткое`, `унисекс` (`;` -separated)

Use cases

Gazetteer for Russian NER, transliteration models, onomastics and demographic research, baby-name applications.

Provenance

Popularity: open data from Moscow civil registry offices (ZAGS), newborn statistics of recent years. Rank is relative within this corpus, not absolute registration counts.
Meanings and notes: NEN editorial team — every entry proofread; astrology and "destiny by name" content deliberately removed.
Canonical repository: github.com/mdanina/nen-imena-dataset · Kaggle mirror: kaggle.com/datasets/magdadanina/russian-names-nen

License and attribution

CC BY 4.0. Free to use, share and adapt — including commercially — with required attribution:

Данные: НЭН — сервис «Имена», https://n-e-n.ru/imena/

Online use requires a working hyperlink to https://n-e-n.ru/imena/.