Quote Originally Posted by vovanmix
Pagan??? Russia became christian in 989, do u know? And now here is not much lesser slavic names than in XI - for example my name is traditional slavic, my grandfather too, and names of many of my friends. Svyatoslav, Vsevolod, Vladimir, Vyacheslav, Stanislav was popular in Russia in all times, since first written sources in IX century! This names are not pagan, they are traditional.
Those names are old Slavic. Many of those names are common among other Slavic peoples. Svetislav in Serbian is Svyatoslav in Russian. Stanislav is the same. My name is also used by Russians but rare. Vladimir is common name among Serbs. Names with suffix -slav are the Slavic.
Names like Bogdan, Boris, Bronislav, Ivan, Miroslav, Rada, Radoslav, Svetlana, Vladislav and etc are common among the most Slavs.