The aim of this research is to determine the national specific features of the semantics of persons’ nominations in the Russian language and their corresponding English translations via contrastive method application. The present research of persons’ nominations is performed within the aspect approach to their semantics on the level of micro components of their meaning in the process of denotative, connotative and functional macro components’ description. The results of similar researches may be used in compiling a new type of contrastive dictionaries.