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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 ...
Pages in category "Latvian feminine given names" The following 95 pages are in this category, out of 95 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Agnese;
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 ...
This list of Scottish Gaelic surnames shows Scottish Gaelic surnames beside their English language equivalent.. Unlike English surnames (but in the same way as Slavic, Lithuanian and Latvian surnames), all of these have male and female forms depending on the bearer, e.g. all Mac- names become Nic- if the person is female.
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).
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.
Writing of Latvian names always conform to the highly phonetic Latvian orthography and in the case of foreign-born Latvian nationals or marriages between Latvian women and foreigners (whence they assume the family name of their husband) the foreign names are modified to conform to the phonetic spelling and to acquire the respective case ending.
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