| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Name day | March 5 |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | From austra ('dawn') |
| Region of origin | Latvia, Lithuania |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Ausma, Austris |
Austra is a Latvian and Lithuanian feminine given name. The associated name day is March 5. [1]
Māra is the highest-ranking goddess in Latvian mythology, the ancient Dawn-goddess, previously called Austra, and, not at all, although often stated, the same as Zemes māte.
Austra Skujytė is a retired Lithuanian athlete, competing in both the heptathlon and the decathlon. On 15 April 2005 in Columbia, Missouri, she broke the women's decathlon world record, with a score of 8358. She is the 2004 Olympic silver medalist and 2012 Olympic bronze medalist in the heptathlon. The latter medal was allocated retrospectively following the disqualification in 2016 of original medalist Tatyana Chernova for historic doping offences.
Marija is a feminine given name, a variation of the name Maria, which was in turn a Latin form of the Greek names Μαριαμ, or Mariam, and Μαρια, or Maria, found in the New Testament. Depending on phonological rules concerning consecutive vowels or the use of the palatal approximant, "Mary" in these languages is Marija if consecutive vowels are disallowed and otherwise Maria.
Daina may refer to:
Liepa is a Latvian and Lithuanian family name. The word literally means "linden tree" in both Latvian and Lithuanian. Its feminine forms in Lithuanian are: Liepienė and Liepaitė. It is also common as feminine given name.
Kaitlin "Katie" Austra Stelmanis is a Canadian musician of Latvian descent, who has performed and recorded both as a solo artist and with the bands Galaxy and Austra.
Emīlija or Emilija is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Arlauskas is a Lithuanian-language surname. People with this name include:
Austra is a Canadian electronic music band from Toronto, founded in 2009 by composer, singer-songwriter, and producer Katie Stelmanis. Stelmanis is the only permanent member of the project, with a rotating live band that has included Maya Postepski (drums), Dorian Wolf, and Ryan Wonsiak (keyboards). It previously also featured the twin backing singers Sari and Romy Lightman of Tasseomancy. The band has released four studio albums—Feel It Break (2011), Olympia (2013), Future Politics (2017), and Hirudin (2020).
The 89th 2012 Lithuanian Athletics Championships were held in S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas on 7–8 July 2012. For the first time Lithuanian Championships was open and athletes from Latvia, Russia and Azerbaijan also participated.
Briedis is a Latvian and Lithuanian surname, either derived from the Latvian word for "deer" or Lithuanian word for "moose". Individuals with the surname include:
Ieva is a Latvian, Lithuanian, and dialectal Finnish given name, counterpart of English Eve, derived from a Hebrew name meaning "life" or "living one". It can also mean full of life or mother of life. It is the standard biblical form of Eve in many European languages.
Laima is a Latvian and Lithuanian female given name, which means "luck" or "beginning". Laima is the goddess of fate and birth in Baltic mythologies. The name may refer to:
Novickis is a surname which is a rendering of the Slavic surname Nowicki/Novitsky/Navitski. In Latvian and Lithuanian, which require the suffix "-s"/"-is"/"-as" for nouns of masculine gender.
Bujwid is a Polish-Lithuanian nobility family name belonging to the Ślepowron coat of arms. The archaic feminine form is Bujwidowa. In modern time it is a unisex surname. Bujwid is a Polish form of the Lithuanian two-syllable archaic (sur)name Buivydas or Buitvydas — from buitis, būtis being, to be and (iš)vysti to see, literally to be born. Modern form is Buividas.
Sofija is a predominantly Croatian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Serbian, and Slovene feminine given name. It is a cognate of the name Sophia meaning "Wisdom". People bearing the name Sofija include:
Julija or Jūlija is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Petrusewicz is a Polish gender-neutral surname of Eash-Slavic origin. Archaic feminine forms: Petrusewiczowna, Petrusewiczowa. It should be distinguished from the spelling Pietrusiewicz which conforms to the Polish phonology, which is usually a by-name in the noble Polish clan Wysoczański. It is a patronymic surname derived from the East Slavic given name Petrus', a diminutive of Piotr/Petro/Piatro (Peter).
Skujiņa is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: