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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 ...
Most of the names on this list are typical examples of surnames that were adopted when modern surnames were introduced in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the romantic spirit, they refer to natural features: virta 'river', koski 'rapids', mäki 'hill', järvi 'lake', saari 'island' — often with the suffix -nen added after the model ...
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 ...
Juris Māters (1845–1884) – author, lawyer and journalist; translated laws to Latvian and created the foundation for Latvian law; Jānis Medenis (1903–1961) – poet; Arnis Mednis (born 1961) – singer; Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics (1887–1925) – first Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Miervaldis is a Latvian masculine given name, borne by some 600 men in Latvia. [1]Miervaldis is one of the relatively few names still in modern use from among the very many Latvian names of indigenous origin either revived from their previous occurrence in the Middle Ages, or invented, during the first Latvian National Awakening in the late 19th century.
The name is borne by more than 6,250 men in Latvia. [2] Its nameday is celebrated on 1 July. The name is one of the relatively few surviving Latvian names of indigenous origin from among the great number revived or introduced during the Latvian National Awakening of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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