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Pages in category "Latvian masculine given names" The following 132 pages are in this category, out of 132 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Latvian names, like in most European cultures, consist of two main elements: the given name (vārds) followed by family name (uzvārds).During the Soviet occupation (1940–1941; 1944–1991) the practice of giving a middle name (otrais vārds) was discouraged, but since the restoration of independence, Latvian legislation again allows the giving of up to two given names and it has become more ...
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Latvian masculine given names (132 P) ... Pages in category "Masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 9,699 total.
It should only contain pages that are Latvian-language masculine surnames or lists of Latvian-language masculine surnames, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Latvian-language masculine surnames in general should be placed in relevant topic categories.
A further suggestion is that the name is derived from the German name Gotthard. [2] [3] Its name-day is celebrated on 8 January. The name is one of the relatively few surviving names of indigenous origin from among the great number that were revived or introduced during the Latvian National Awakening of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [3]
Indulis is a Latvian masculine given name, borne by more than 1,000 men in Latvia. [1] Its nameday is celebrated on 2 January. The name has two possible derivations, one from a Baltic word meaning "gift", and the other as a diminutive of Indriķis, the Latvian form of Heinrich.
The official records of Latvian names were often variously forcibly assimilated into the foreign culture dominant at times in Latvian lands. For example, local pastors, who were often of German descent, used to issue marriage and birth certificates with Germanized names: e.g., Kalns was written as Berg (both meaning "mountain" in Latvian and German respectively).