Lithuania Naming Customs: Difference between revisions

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:*Almost all Lithuanian female names end in the vowels -a or -ė.
:*Almost all Lithuanian female names end in the vowels -a or -ė.
*Male names almost always end in -s, and rarely in a vowel -a. If a masculine name ending in -a has a feminine counterpart, it ends in -ė, e.g. Jogaila and Jogailė.<ref>"Lithuanian name", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_name, 6 March 2021.</ref>
*Male names almost always end in -s, and rarely in a vowel -a. If a masculine name ending in -a has a feminine counterpart, it ends in -ė, e.g. Jogaila and Jogailė.<ref>"Lithuanian name", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_name, 6 March 2021.</ref>
You can read more about given names [http://thelithuanians.com/names/name.html here.]


==For Further Reading==
==For Further Reading==
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