What is the most common name for Russian stacking dolls?

What is the most common name for those little wooden dolls which come in sets of about five, each one fitting inside a doll slightly bigger than itself?

What is the most common name for Russian stacking dolls?
In Russian, they are called "Matryoshka" dolls. In English, they are referred to as "nesting dolls". They sometimes are referred to as "stacking dolls",but they don't really stack on top of each other , do they? They fit inside of each other.





Here is some information from a Russian website on the subject:





"Russian nesting doll (synonyms - nested doll, stacking doll) or matryoshka as it is sounded in Russian - probably, the most popular Russian national souvenir. The wide fame was won by Russian matryoshka (nesting doll) far abroad. At all large exhibitions, fairs, the festivals held in different counties of the world, amusing cheerful nesting dolls were most fascinating exhibits. Also it seems, that matroyshka nesting doll has come to us from a gray-haired antiquity, from the world of legends and fairy tales. Actually this wooden doll is about hundred years





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2. Why it is called "Matryoshka"


Russian wooden dolls within smaller dolls were called matryoshka. In old Russian among peasants the name Matryona or Matriosha was a very popular female name. Scholars says this name has a Latin root "mater" and means "Mother". This name was associated with the image of of a mother of a big peasant family who was very healthy and had a portly figure.





Subsequently, it became a symbolic name and was used specially to image brightly painted wooden figurines made in a such way that they could taken apart to reveal smaller dolls fitting inside one another.

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