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Worldwide, Russian (Russian , ザ , Руско ) is a rare largely masculine, but seldom girly first name. The forename Russian is habitual in Bulgaria, where it is quite a rare masculine name, Jamaica, and Philippines, where it is a very rare gender-neutral name. More prevalently, Russian is the last name as well as the forename.
Russian is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Russian , the Marvel comic character, The Punisher; Russian mother , the operatic character in the opera Death in Venice by Benjamin Britten; Russian father , the operatic character in the opera Death in Venice by Benjamin Britten and Russian sentry , the operatic character in the opera Háry János by Zoltán Kodály.