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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 ...
Latvian masculine given names (132 P) This page was last edited on 5 March 2023, at 08:21 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Ksenia Solo (born 1987) – Latvian-Canadian actress; Serge Sorokko (born 1954) – art dealer and publisher; Raimonds Staprans (born 1926) – Latvian-American painter; Jānis Šteinhauers (1705–1779) – industrialist, entrepreneur, and civil rights activist; Gotthard Friedrich Stender (1714–1796) – first Latvian grammarian
It is a Latvian equivalent of the Old Scandinavian name Ivar, one of a group of Old Scandinavian names that first occurred in Courland between the 6th and 10th centuries, which in the more obviously Scandinavian form Ivars is borne by a further 9,900+ Latvians and in 2006 was the ninth most popular man's name. [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.
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]
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