The family, reassembled from grammar

A patronymic names the father. Everyone below carries Fyodorovitch, so everyone below is a child of Fyodor. The dashed thread is said once, at Bk V, ch. 2, and never again.

Fyodor Pavlovitchthe father— FyodorovitchDmitri170×Ivan59×Alexey“Alyosha” · 113×Pavel“Smerdyakov” · 1×once, in 349,367 words

Who is allowed to say it

Each ring is a degree of formality — the outer ring is name-plus-patronymic, held at arm’s length; the centre is the diminutive. Dot size is how often the form appears anywhere in the text, narration included. Where a speech is tagged with its speaker and the name is used to someone’s face, that speaker is named. Only 807 of 5,857 quoted passages carry a tag the atlas can read; inside them it found 72 names used as direct address and 58 spoken of in the third person. So “said to their face by” is a floor, never a census.

Dmitri

4 name forms
DmitriMitya911×Dmitri210×Dmitri Fyodorovitch170×Mityenka3×

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Dmitri Fyodorovitch Karamazov — 4 ways of being named. Nearer the centre is more intimate.
Name forms, and who is heard using them
Mitya
911× · familiarSaid to their face by Grushenka, Alyosha, Fyodor
Dmitri
210× · neutralSaid to their face by Alyosha
Dmitri Fyodorovitch
170× · formalSaid to their face by Hohlakov, Nikolay P., Trifon B.
Mityenka
3× · tender

Grushenka

3 name forms
GrushenkaGrushenka363×Agrafena Alexandrovna39×Grusha18×

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Agrafena Alexandrovna Svyetlov — 3 ways of being named. Nearer the centre is more intimate.
Name forms, and who is heard using them
Grushenka
363× · tenderSaid to their face by Alyosha
Agrafena Alexandrovna
39× · formal
Grusha
18× · familiar

Alyosha

3 name forms
AlyoshaAlyosha1241×Alexey Fyodorovitch113×Alexey50×

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Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov — 3 ways of being named. Nearer the centre is more intimate.
Name forms, and who is heard using them
Alyosha
1,241× · familiarSaid to their face by Ivan, Lise, Dmitri
Alexey Fyodorovitch
113× · formalSaid to their face by Hohlakov, Katerina, Ivan
Alexey
50× · neutralSaid to their face by Dmitri, Rakitin

Katerina

3 name forms
KaterinaKaterina Ivanovna199×Katya75×Katerina13×

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Katerina Ivanovna Verhovtsev — 3 ways of being named. Nearer the centre is more intimate.
Name forms, and who is heard using them
Katerina Ivanovna
199× · formalSaid to their face by Nikolay P.
Katya
75× · familiarSaid to their face by Dmitri
Katerina
13× · neutral

Ivan

2 name forms
IvanIvan655×Ivan Fyodorovitch59×

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Ivan Fyodorovitch Karamazov — 2 ways of being named. Nearer the centre is more intimate.
Name forms, and who is heard using them
Ivan
655× · neutralSaid to their face by Alyosha
Ivan Fyodorovitch
59× · formal

Smerdyakov

2 name forms
SmerdyakovSmerdyakov371×Pavel Fyodorovitch1×

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Pavel Smerdyakov — 2 ways of being named. Nearer the centre is more intimate.
Name forms, and who is heard using them
Smerdyakov
371× · distancedSaid to their face by Fyodor
Pavel Fyodorovitch
1× · formal

How far the naming ever relaxes

Not how often someone is named, but the least formal register the text ever uses for them — across narration and dialogue alike, under the alias vocabulary listed on this page. Dmitri reaches the diminutive Mityenka; Fyodor appears only as Fyodor Pavlovitch, Ivan takes no recorded diminutive, and Smerdyakov is a surname 371 times against a single given name.

A reading, offered as one: those three sit at the formal end, and the murder runs through all three. That is a pattern in how the prose names people. It is not evidence of what any character feels, and an alias list this size cannot support a claim about what nobody ever says.

formaldistancedneutralfamiliartenderDmitri1,294 namingsGrushenka420 namingsAlyosha1,404 namingsKaterina287 namingsKolya278 namingsIlusha166 namingsIvan714 namingsGrigory192 namingsLise144 namingsZossima100 namingsSmerdyakov372 namingsRakitin198 namingsPerhotin119 namingsFyodor298 namingsNikolay P.103 namings