anyone good with names?

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<p>Where does the name Ilijevski come from?</p>

<p>I got a pen pal with the name.</p>

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<p>Somewhere in eastern Europe… Poland, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine. One of those, probably. Could also be Croatia, Bosnia, or Serbia.</p>

<p>edit: Just did a quick search. There’s a guy Ilija Ilijevski from Macedonia.</p>

<p>[Ilija</a> Ilijevski Information, Photos, and Trivia at MovieTome](<a href=“http://www.movietome.com/people/190830/ilija-ilijevski/index.html]Ilija”>http://www.movietome.com/people/190830/ilija-ilijevski/index.html)</p>

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<p>I knew it was something like Russian! All the eastern names sound so similar though…</p>

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<p>yes…it gotta be eastern european. I’d go w/ slovenia…almost natural instinct…no other explanation…:D…although it cud also be northern europe too…like denmark, switzerland, etc.</p>

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<p>Kind of… they have the same suffix anyway. Names ending with ko or ski will always be eastern european, and names ending in ic will usually be from a slavic country.</p>

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<p>yes…it gotta be eastern european? I’d go w/ slovenia…almost natural instinct…no other explanation…although it cud also be northern europe too…like denmark, switzerland, etc.</p>

<p>Really? I don’t know any name ending with ski originating in Scandinavia or Switzerland…</p>

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<p>It’s probably from Russia, Ukraine, or Poland. </p>

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<p>Names endind in -ic are Croatian, Serbian, or Bosnian.</p>

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<p>Names endind in -ic are Croatian, Serbian, or Bosnian.</p>

<p>Usually, but not always. And those are all slavic countries.</p>

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<p>I know, but I’m Croatian, and I haven’t met anyone from another country with an -ic last name. And yes, I know they’re slavic countries.</p>

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<p>Grigore Vasiliu Birlic - Romanian actor</p>

<p>I’m Romanian. I’ve met people with -ic from other eastern European countries. You have to realize that these last names existed prior to the current national borders of croatia/serbia/bosnia or the former yugoslavia.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I guess you’re right. That’s kind of interesting. I always thought of -ic names as being strictly Croatian/Serbian/Bosnian.</p>

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<p>According to Wikipedia, last names ending with “-ski” are from: Poland, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Macedonia</p>

<p>And last names ending on “-ic” (-ich): ex-Yugoslavia (Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia), Belarus, Poland, Slovakia. Yugoslav ex.: Petrović, means Petar’s son</p>