Demyan

From the Roman family name Cassianus, which was derived from Cassius. This was the name of several saints, including a 3rd-century martyr from Tangier who is the patron saint of stenographers and a 5th-century mystic who founded a monastery in Marseille.

Popularly claimed to mean “leaping waters” in the Choctaw language, it may actually mean “town” in the Creek language. This is the name of waterfalls in Georgia. It was borne by American actress Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968), who was named after her grandmother, who may have been named after the waterfalls.

Bulgarian form of Xenia, as well as an alternate transcription of Russian Аксинья (see Aksinya).

From Japanese 黒 (kuro) meaning “black” and 木 (ki) meaning “tree, wood”.

Diminutive of Przemysław.