Mitrofan

Mitrofan is a Slavic masculine given name and a Romanian surname derived from Greek : 'mother' + , 'appear, shine'. Its English equivalent is Metrophanes.

Derived names: Mitrokha/Mitroha/Mitroshka, Russian diminutive; Mitrofanushka, Russian hypocoristic.

Derived patronymics: Mitrofanovich (masculine), Mitrofanovna (feminine).

Derived surnames: Mitrofanov/Mitrofanova, Russian; Mitrokhin/Mitrokhina, Russian; Mitrofanenko, Ukrainian

In Russian culture, the name "Mitrofanushka" may refer to an uneducated and ill-mannered young man, who refuses to improve himself, after the protagonist of the 1872 comedy The Minor by Denis Fonvizin.

Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Mitrophan of Voronezh, an Orthodox Saint and bishop

• Mitrofan Ban, Montenegrin bishop
• Mitrofan Cioban, a Moldovan mathematician
• Mitrofan Belyayev, a Russian music publisher, founder of the Glinka prize
• Mitrofan Dovnar-Zapolsky, a Belarusian historian and ethnographer
• Mitrofan Grekov
• Mitrofan Grodzitsky
• Mitrofan Lodyzhensky
• Mitrofan Moskalenko
• Mitrofan Nadein
• Mitrofan Pyatnitsky, a Russian musician
• Mitrofan Tchaikovsky
• Mitrofan Nedelin, Soviet military commander
• Mitrofan Kodić

Surname

• (1929-2002), Romanian archaeologist and historian
• Mihai Mitrofan
• Sandu Mitrofan

See also