Kirdan

Syllable breakdown

Name meaning and origin

Origin

Moksha (Russia)

Meaning

a masculine name from the Moksha people of the Republic of Mordovia in the middle Volga region of European Russia, whose language — Moksha Mordvin — belongs to the Mordvinic branch of the Uralic language family alongside Erzya; the Moksha and Erzya are the two peoples collectively designated Mordvin, though they maintain distinct languages and cultural traditions; Moksha traditional religion centred on the deity Shkai (sky god) and an elaborate spirit world populated by beings associated with natural features, and personal names preserved traces of this pre-Christian cosmological vocabulary even after the eighteenth-century mass baptism campaigns brought Orthodoxy to Mordovian communities; Kirdan carries the phonological signature of the Uralic world in a predominantly Slavic environment

Gender

male