Today’s name is ZiedÄ«te. This is a female name. According to Klāvs Siliņš’ LatvieÅ¡u personvārdu vārdnica (Dictionary of Latvian Personal Names), ZiedÄ«te comes from the Latvian verb “ziedÄ“t”, which means “to blossom”, and was first seen in 1915 in Zemgale,

Welcome back to Forename Friday! This will be a biweekly series looking at Latvian first names, chosen based on one of the names found in the Latvian calendar of names for that day. Today’s name is Zinta. This is a

Today’s Forename Friday is dedicated to given names that relate to fire and light. This is an interesting category, because so many Latvian names come from it. But as I’ve mentioned before, even though there are many names in this

The genea-blogging community has Surname Saturday, so why not Forename Friday? This is not meant to exclude those from cultures where given names appear after surnames, but there is no day of the week starting with a G for “given