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Mirel and Apollo: the rarest names for babies since the beginning of 2023 were named in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

April 5, 2023

On the evening of April 4, the YNAO civil status office took stock of the work for the first three months of 2023. The experts named the most popular and rare names given by the inhabitants of Yamal to the newborns during this period.

The rarest names for girls in 2023 are Anisiya, Nicoletta, Mirel, Severina and Ruslana. The YaNAO boys also received unusual names: Apollo, Lawrence, Moses, Ustin, Yakov.

Most often in Yamal, newborn girls are called Sofia, Alice, Eva, Victoria, Kirami. On the boys’ side, since the beginning of 2023, Mikhail, Artem, Alexandra, Maxima and Mirona are most often born in the region.

In just three months of this year, 827 boys and 767 girls were born in Yamal.

Earlier we talked about how the residents of Noyabrsk named their newborn daughter Russia.

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The Russia Desk leads The Eastern Herald's coverage of Russia, the war in Ukraine, NATO's eastern flank, and the post-Soviet space. The desk has reported continuously on the Russia-Ukraine conflict since its full-scale expansion in February 2022 and verifies through Kremlin statements, NATO briefings.

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