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By Brynn McKeon · Jul 2026

ah-LYOH-sha

Alyosha

OriginRussian
Meaning"defender"
GenderBoy

About Alyosha

Variation of Adelaide

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#1976🫐 Nameberry

Famous Alyoshas

  • Alyosha (born Olena Oleksandrivna Kucher)

    Ukrainian singer

  • Alyosha Popovich

    male Russian folk hero

Alyosha in pop culture

  • Alexey 'Alyosha' Karamazov

    main character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Brothers Karamazov"

  • "Alyosha the Pot

    " short story by Leo Tolstoy

  • "Alyosha Ptitsyn Grows Up

    " 1953 Soviet film

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