Lithuanian Names. Names with Lithuanian origin

Lithuanian names. Names with Lithuanian origin

Dovidas means: Friend.

Cobern means: Americanized spelling of German Kobern, a habitational name from Kowarren, the German form of a place in Lithuania called Kavarskas, named in Lithuanian from kovoti ‘to forge’.English : possibly a variant spelling of Cockburn.

Jonas means: English, German, French, Jewish (Ashkenazic), Lithuanian, Czech and Slovak (Jonáš), and Hungarian (Jónás) : from a medieval personal name, which comes from the Hebrew male personal name Yona, meaning ‘dove’. In the book of the Bible which bears his name, Jonah was appointed by God to preach repentance to the city of Nineveh, but tried to flee instead to Tarshish. On the voyage to Tarshish, a great storm blew up, and Jonah was thrown overboard by his shipmates to appease God’s wrath, swallowed by a great fish, and delivered by it on the shores of Nineveh. This story exercised a powerful hold on the popular imagination in medieval Europe, and the personal name was a relatively common choice. The Hebrew name and its reflexes in other languages (for example Yiddish Yoyne) have been popular Jewish personal names for generations. There are also saints, martyrs, and bishops called Jonas venerated in the Orthodox Church. Ionas is found as a Greek family name.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : respelling of Yonis, with Yiddish possessive -s.

Newly listed names

Zone is Surname or Lastname and has origin as Dutch. Zone means: Dutch : from zoon ‘son’, a distinguishing epithet for a son who shared the same personal name as his father.English (southwestern) : variant of Son.

Zane is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Zane means: English : unexplained.Italian (Venice and Mantua) and Greek (Zanes) : from a variant of the Venetian personal name Z(u)an(n)i ‘John’ (see Zani).Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Zahn.Robert Zane was a cloth maker of English origin, a founding member of the Quaker colony that was set up at Salem, NJ, in 1676.

Zachry is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Zachry means: English : variant of Zachary.

Zachery is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Zachery means: English : variant of Zachary.

Zachary is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English and Jewish. Zachary means: English and Jewish : from a vernacular form of the Biblical personal name Zacharias.

Youngs is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Youngs means: English : patronymic from Young.

Youngman is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Youngman means: English : from Middle English yunge man ‘young servant’.

Younger is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English (mainly Borders). Younger means: English (mainly Borders) : from Middle English yonger ‘younger’, hence a distinguishing name for, for example, the younger of two bearers of the same personal name. In one case, at least, however, the name is known to have been borne by an immigrant Fleming, and was probably an Americanized form of Middle Dutch jongheer ‘young nobleman’ (see Jonker).Americanized spelling of various cognate or like-sounding names in other languages, notably German Junger and Junker, or Dutch Jonker.

Young is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English, Scottish, and northern Irish. Young means: English, Scottish, and northern Irish : distinguishing name (Middle English yunge, yonge ‘young’), for the younger of two bearers of the same personal name, usually distinguishing a younger brother or a son. In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge.Americanization of a cognate, equivalent, or like-sounding surname in some other language, notably German Jung and Junk, Dutch De Jong, De Jongh and Jong, and French Lejeune and LaJeunesse.assimilated form of French Dion or Guyon.Chinese : see Yang.

Youmans is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Youmans means: English : variant of Yeomans.