Remembering from childhood, we repeat it throughout our lives as something once and for all given and very significant. From ancient times, the Slavs had a tradition of giving a person a nickname in addition to the name he received at baptism. A truly inexhaustible supply of nicknames made it easy to distinguish a person in society. The following could be used as sources: an indication of the features of the character or appearance of a person, the name of the nationality or locality from which the person came. In most cases, nicknames that were originally attached to baptismal names completely replaced names not only in Everyday life but also in official documents.
In "Onomasticon" S.B. Veselovsky mentions Ivan Ivanovich Blokha Anichkov, 1495, Novgorod; The name Blokhin has been known since the 15th century.
The Blokhins are a Russian noble family, according to legend, descended from the Golden Horde prince Berka (in holy baptism Anikey, the direct ancestor of the Anichkov nobles), who arrived in 1301 to the Moscow Grand Duke Ivan Kalita. Ivan Yakovlevich Blokhin was governor in Kologriv in 1617-1618. His son, Ivan Ivanovich, was a solicitor, and his grandson, Artemy Ivanovich, was a steward and owner of estates in Tver, Staritsky and Uglich counties. The Blokhin clan is recorded in the VI part of the genealogical books of the provinces of Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Penza and Kaluga. The coat of arms of the family is included in Part 12 of the General Armorial noble families All-Russian Empire.
Among the most famous namesakes are Oleg Vladimirovich Blokhin, an outstanding Soviet Ukrainian football player, the author of many USSR football records; football coach. Among the records of Soviet football set by Blokhin, the achievement of the mark of 200 goals stands out. A significant event happened on August 21, 1985 in Kharkov, during the Metalist - Dynamo (Kyiv) match. Bloch, eventually received the name Blokhin.
Version 2. The history of the origin of the name Blokhin
In ancient times, our ancestors gave each other names, nicknames, aptly emphasizing a certain character trait, whether it be dignity, for example, Truth, or a disadvantage: Thunderstorm - hot temper, Flea - annoying harmful man. From these nicknames came the names of Bloch, Blokhin, Blokhintsev, Bloshkin, Voshka, Voshkin, Groza, Groznin, Groznov, Grozny, Grozov, Pravdivtsev, Pravdin. Pravdin's "namesake" should be considered Yustov, since this is a direct translation into Latin of this surname - for euphony, as they thought in seminaries, where they were engaged in such word creation.
How to spell the surname Blokhin in English (Latin)
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Surname Blokhin belongs ancient type Russian surnames formed from a worldly name.
The tradition of giving a person, in addition to the name received at baptism, a second, so-called "worldly" name developed in Russia immediately after the adoption of Christianity and persisted until the 17th century. This is explained by the fact that there were relatively few church names, they were often repeated, and this created inconvenience in communication. In addition, at first these "foreign" names were perceived as "alien". Therefore, usually the child, along with the baptismal one, was given one more, primordially Slavic name which was familiar and understandable.
The meaning of the name Blokhin
Worldly names were used as nicknames, often completely replacing the official name, not only in everyday life, but also in documents. big group worldly names were ancient, dating back to pagan beliefs, "security" names according to the names of various animals, birds, fish, insects. These names later became one of the main sources of nicknames, with the only difference being that nicknames were often given already taking into account any individual characteristics of a person. You can often come across the nickname Bloch, which, most likely, could have been given to a person who is small, of small stature, or restless, jumping from place to place. This nickname was very common among representatives of all classes. It was worn, for example, by the Vilna tradesman Bloch (1445), the Novgorod landowner Bloch Ivanov son Anichkin (1495), the centurion of the Zaporizhzhya army Bloch (1674) and many others.
In the XV-XVI centuries in Russia, among the princes, boyars and other privileged classes, surnames began to appear as special family names that were inherited from father to child. Very soon, the very presence of a surname became prestigious, socially significant, so representatives of other wealthy strata also sought to form surnames and thereby get rid of nicknames. By the beginning of the 17th century, most Russian surnames were formed by adding the suffixes -ov / -ev and -in to the base - the name or nickname of the father. By their origin, such surnames are possessive adjectives: Ilyin means the son of Ilya. Moreover, from nicknames ending in a consonant -о or -й, surnames appeared in -ov / -ev, and the suffix -in was added to the bases in -а / -я. Thus, from the worldly name of Bloch, the old Russian surname Blokhin was formed.
Blokhin family origin
When exactly and where did the surname first appear Blokhin, it is rather difficult to say today, but it is known that in the XV-XVI centuries it was already widespread everywhere. So, in 1495, the peasant Pashka Blokhin was mentioned, and in 1653, the Tver otchinnik Alexei Mikhailov Blokhin was mentioned.
There is no doubt that the surname Blokhin has an interesting centuries-old history and should be classified among the oldest Russian generic names, indicating the diversity of the ways in which Russian surnames appeared.
Origin of surnames
on the example of two villages of the Sergach district
My parents both come from villages that, before the revolution, were part of the same Sergach district of the Nizhny Novgorod province. The father was born in the village of Pokrov (now the Gaginsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region), and his mother was born in the village of Starinskoye (now the Pilnensky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region). Sergachsky district was quite extensive. The distance between the villages is about 70 km in a straight line. In both villages there has always been a purely Russian population, although there are many villages and villages with a Mordovian population surrounded by Pokrov, and with a Tatar population surrounded by Starinsky, but this factor did not have any effect on the formation of surnames in the villages.
It must be said that in the Sergach district, the names of the peasants were not written in the documents until late. With the exception of the peasants taken into recruits. All retired soldiers in the documents have surnames. In the village of Pokrov, surnames appear only after 1872, and in the village of Starinsky even later. But this does not mean that surnames did not exist at all. Each family knew its own family name.
Studying archival documents for both villages, I identified one pattern of the origin of surnames. In the village of Starinsky, almost all surnames were formed from male proper names, i.e. on behalf of the ancestors - the Sidorovs, Kuzmins, Varlamovs, Fedotovs, Fedoseevs. And very rarely from nicknames, Khruleva, for example. Even such seemingly unusual surnames for these places, both Lupanov and Apollon are formed from the male names Lupp and Apollo, respectively.
The surname Khrulev is derived from the nickname Khrul. According to one version, the nickname was based on the common noun "khrul", i.e. a kind of wide awl, a flat hook for weaving bast shoes. Most likely, this nickname refers to the so-called "professional" names containing an indication of human activity. Therefore, it is likely that the founder of the Khrulev family was a lapotnik. In addition, Khrul was often called a man of small stature. Khrul, eventually received the surname Khrulev.
In the village of Pokrov, surnames have a very wide variety. Alyaevs, Atopshevs, Blokhins, Bystrovs, Bubnovs, Gryaznovs, Denisovs, Zobovs, Komarovs, Korolevs, Kurylevs, Lonskovs, Oreshkins, Peshcherovs, Puzankovs, Sukhanovs, Chekhovs, Yashins.
There are a lot of surnames that came from clearly nicknamed names: Bystrov (from the nickname Fast), Gryaznov (Dirty), Puzankov (Puzanok). Of course, there are many surnames derived from male proper names, such as Denisovs, Yashins.
The history of the emergence of the surname Atopsheva (in the old days Otopsheva) is interesting. The history of its origin was told to me by Lidia Alekseevna Blokhina (Atopsheva), whom she heard from her grandfather. The worn-out bast shoes were called otopyshki. And the family that was engaged in the restoration (repair) of worn-out bast shoes received the name of the Otopshevs.
The history of the emergence of my grandmother's surname, Kurylev, is very diverse. In the village there were two similar surnames Korolyov and Kurylev (in the metric books of the 19th century they sometimes wrote “Korylyovs”). I think it's the same last name, just spelled differently. A lot depended on the education of the deacon who wrote down the names in the register of births at birth, marriage and death. He could be very educated, or he could have graduated from a parochial school, or just young.
In the metric books for 1858, for the first time, the surname of the retired soldier Ivan Eliseevich Evstigneev (GANO f. 570, op 559b, file 1653) is found for the first time, but the surname of his grandfather Vasily Fedotovich in the metric book of 1852 is recorded, apparently by ear, as Stegneev. Now the discrepancies in surnames become clear.
Since the surname was recorded by ear, it was possible to see a great variety of the same surname. In our case, we can say unequivocally Korolev, Korylev and Kurylev are the same surname. But its origin may be different.
It is possible that one of my grandmother's ancestors was nicknamed the King and the surname came from him. But in the “Arzamas Local Acts” I came across the nickname Koroul, which means a person who guards, i.e. guards. It is quite possible that the surname Kurylev could also come from this nickname. Try saying "Koroulev" out loud! Now it is clear?
The surname Lonskovy is not at all as simple as it seems. In one of the parish registers, I came across the spelling of this surname as Lonskoy, and this is already a noble surname.
The second version of the origin of this surname is as follows: In the Tula and Voronezh dialects, lan is a field. Thus, lanovoy, lanskoy is the same in meaning as field. Lanskoy also means last year.
BLOKHINS
No less interesting and confusing is the history of the emergence of the name of my ancestors, Blokhin, in the village of Pokrov. By the way, my grandparents also spoke their last name with an accent on the second syllable - Blokhiny.
The fact is that the village of Pokrov (then the village of Pokrovskoye) at the beginning of the 17th century was part of the Zalesny camp of the Arzamas district and was located beyond the Zasechnaya line, or rather, behind its Shatkovsky Gate. From the 1580s, the children of the boyar Blokhins served on this notch line and received estates not far from their places of service.
Even from my grandmother, I heard the phrase that the Blokhins are service people. I think that she repeated this phrase more than a dozen times, remembering it from her girlhood. Although, none of the Blokhins, except for my grandfather, served in the army before the revolution. Only very rare ones were recruited, but that was a very long time ago.
The first version of the origin: By the end of the 17th century, the Arzamas serif line had lost its defensive significance. Part of the noble children of the Blokhins were transferred to the Atemar and Pezensky notches. The servants were impoverished. Already by the 1650s, the Blokhins had estates in the Arzamas district, but there was not a single peasant household in them. There was no one to cultivate the land. The Blokhins who remained in the Arzamas district, in order to feed themselves, had no choice but to take up the plow. They went to free lands, including beyond the notch line. Someone went to the other side of the notch, deep into Russian territory. So, for example, there are a lot of Blokhins in the village of Kovaksa of the present Arzamas region.
Version two: My ancestors were serfs of one of the servicemen landowner people Blokhin (I don’t know which one). There are many cases when all the peasants of one landowner were given his last name. Maybe it's the same case.
Since, according to my research in Pokrov, surnames began to be written in church registers of births starting in 1872, it can be assumed that the Blokhins had a surname in everyday life, but was not recorded. Previously, only the names of the soldiers who received them in the army and brought them to their native villages and villages were written. This is the third version of the origin of the name Blokhin in Pokrov. Maybe one of my ancestors, being on military service, once received the name Blokhin from the nickname Bloch?
But according to the records in the parish registers, I found out that my ancestor Pyotr Prokofievich (born 1821) had the surname Blokhin, just like his brothers Philip Prokofievich (by the way, a soldier), Grigory Prokofievich and Ivan Prokofievich. So their father, Prokofy Kharitonovich (born 1763), also bore this surname. So, as it is reliably known that Prokofy Kharitonovich was a peasant (it was necessarily written about retired soldiers in revision tales), we can conclude that the family name - the surname of Blokhin is much older.
And the last, fourth version: Blokhin is a simple nickname surname, again from the nickname Bloch, so named for restlessness.
All versions have the right to exist. I have an exciting task ahead of me - to find out the correctness of one of the versions, and possibly a completely different interpretation of the origin of the Blokhin family in Pokrov.
Reviews
I really enjoyed your research. I know four Blokhins, two comrades from the Tomsk region from the north, two from Siberia nearby, we are southern Siberians. South is relative to north. Minus five on a clear day, I'm worried that I opened the grapes, there are 13 vines, I'm a little worried, but I believe in them. These are just experiences along the way. Many other families are found here. Maybe just scattered, most likely a coincidence, who knows.
You write very well, you can go further both historical and ironic. After all, you don’t just dig in the archives, but from our people, you can hear a lot. Filter in your head, yes or no to write. You will please your countrymen, and then how will it go.
The surname Blokhin in one third of cases has Russian origin, there is also a small chance that the surname of a Belarusian or Ukrainian origin, in about a quarter of cases the surname originated from the languages of the peoples of Russia (Buryat, Mordovian, Tatar, Bashkir, etc.), it is also possible that in 20% it has Jewish roots, in 20% they are Russified variants of Latvian surnames. Most likely, this surname comes from the nickname, name, or profession of a distant ancestor of its bearer, moreover, in most cases, in the male line. Although it is not uncommon for the surname Blokhin to occur along the female line
The surname Blokhin is considered quite rare in the territories of Russia and neighboring countries. In referring pre-revolutionary chronicles, namesakes were very important persons from the Russian Vladimir boyars in the 15th-16th centuries, who held significant power and honors. Historical references to the surname can be seen in the census table of All Russia during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. The ruler had a certain list of noble and beautiful surnames, which were given to loved ones only in case of special merit or award. Thus, the specified surname has retained its own primary designation and is rare ..
Latin spelling of the surname: BLOHIN
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A representative of the Blokhin family can be proud of their ancestors, information about which is contained in various documents confirming the trace they left in the history of Russia.
The surname Blokhin belongs to the ancient type of Russian surnames formed from a worldly name.
The tradition of giving a person, in addition to the name received at baptism, a second, so-called "worldly" name developed in Russia immediately after the adoption of Christianity and persisted until the 17th century. This is explained by the fact that there were relatively few church names, they were often repeated, and this created inconvenience in communication. In addition, at first these "foreign" names were perceived as "alien". Therefore, usually the child, along with the baptismal one, was given another, primordially Slavic name, which was familiar and understandable.
Worldly names were used as nicknames, often completely replacing the official name, not only in everyday life, but also in documents. A large group of worldly names were ancient, dating back to pagan beliefs, "security" names according to the names of various animals, birds, fish, insects. These names later became one of the main sources of nicknames, with the only difference being that nicknames were often given already taking into account any individual characteristics of a person. You can often come across the nickname Bloch, which, most likely, could have been given to a person who is small, of small stature, or restless, jumping from place to place. This nickname was very common among representatives of all classes. It was worn, for example, by the Vilna tradesman Bloch (1445), the Novgorod landowner Bloch Ivanov son Anichkin (1495), the centurion of the Zaporizhzhya army Bloch (1674) and many others.
In the XV-XVI centuries in Russia, among the princes, boyars and other privileged classes, surnames began to appear as special family names that were inherited from father to child. Very soon, the very presence of a surname became prestigious, socially significant, so representatives of other wealthy strata also sought to form surnames and thereby get rid of nicknames. By the beginning of the 17th century, most Russian surnames were formed by adding the suffixes -ov / -ev and -in to the base - the name or nickname of the father. By their origin, such surnames are possessive adjectives: Ilyin means the son of Ilya. Moreover, from nicknames ending in a consonant -о or -й, surnames appeared in -ov / -ev, and the suffix -in was added to the bases in -а / -я. So the old Russian surname Blokhin was formed from the worldly name Bloch.
It is rather difficult to say today exactly when and where the surname Blokhin first appeared, but it is known that in the 15th-16th centuries it was already widespread everywhere. So, in 1495, the peasant Pashka Blokhin was mentioned, and in 1653, the Tver otchinnik Alexei Mikhailov Blokhin was mentioned.
There is no doubt that the surname Blokhin has an interesting centuries-old history and should be classified among the oldest Russian generic names, indicating the diversity of the ways in which Russian surnames appeared.
Sources: Tupikov N.M. Dictionary of Old Russian personal names. SPb., 1903. Superanskaya A.V. Dictionary of Russian personal names. M., 1998. Veselovsky S.B. Onomasticon. M., 1974. Unbegaun B.O. Russian surnames. M., 1995.