Last year , residents of Naberezhnye Chelny used about 900 names for newborns. The most popular female names are: Sophia, Amina, Eva, Yasmina, Alice, Amelia. Timur has been considered the leader among male names for a long time, as well as Amir, Mark, Artyom, and Karim., Maksim. In 2020, Eva and Mark rose to third place in the ranking.
The girls were also given unusual names such as Philadelphia, Melangella, Aprelia, and Aria., Elizabeth, Octavia, Farishta, Catalea and Iris. The list of rare male names includes Richard, Altair, Graf, Witold, Karapet, Solomon, Ramses, Tibet., Nariman.
Sometimes parents give their children double names.: Arthur-Sylvester, Yosef-Yisrael, Muhammad-Ali, Muhammad-Anas.
Parents rarely called such once very popular names as Svetlana, Natalia, Tatiana, Elvira., Anton, Oleg, Ildar, Igor, Yuri.
The proportion of birth registrations before discharge from the hospital is 98%. According to a long-standing tradition, each child is discharged in a solemn atmosphere.