| Gender | Feminine |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | Czech, Hungarian, Slovak |
| Name day | October 7, December 1 Poland October 25 Hungary |
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | French |
| Meaning | White, fair |
| Other names | |
| Cognate(s) | Blanche |
| Anglicisation(s) | Blanche |
| Related names | Bianca, Bianka, Blanca |
Blanka is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Bianca is a feminine given name. It means "white" and is an Italian cognate of Blanche. It is known in the Anglosphere as a character in William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. It came to greater notice beginning in the 1970s due to public figures such as Bianca Jagger.
Bogdan or Bohdan is a Slavic masculine name that appears in all Slavic countries as well as Romania and Moldova. It is derived from the Slavic words Bog/Boh, meaning "god", and dan, meaning "given". The name appears to be an early calque from Greek Theodore or Hebrew Matthew with the same meaning. The name is also used as a surname in Hungary. Bogdana is the feminine version of the name.
Novak, Novák, or Nowak, is a surname and masculine given name, derived from the Slavic word for "new", which depending on the exact language and usage, translates as "novice", "new man", "newcomer", or "stranger".
Renata is a feminine given name of European origin, and a New Zealand surname.
Szávay is a Hungarian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Albin is a masculine Polish, Scandinavian, German, French and Slovenian given name, from the Roman cognate Albinus, derived from the Latin albus, meaning "white" or "bright". This name may also be a last name. In Estonia, France, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Sweden, March 1 is Albin's name day. There are variant spellings, including Albinas, a male given name in Lithuania; Aubin, a French masculine given name; and Albina, an Ancient Roman, Albanian, Czech, Galician, Italian, Polish, Slovak, and Slovenian feminine given name. Albin is uncommon as a surname.
Branka is a Serbo-Croatian female given name derived from the Slavic root bran – the same as in Branislav and Branimir – with the meaning "to defend or protect". It can also be a version of the Portuguese name Branca meaning "white". The name Branka became popular in the territory of former Yugoslavia some hundred years ago.
Antonia, Antónia, Antônia, or Antonía is a feminine given name and a surname. It is of Roman origin, used as the name of women of the Antonius family. Its meaning is "priceless", "praiseworthy" and "beautiful". Antonia is a Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, and Swedish name used in the United States, most of Canada, the Latin American states, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Philippines, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Spain, Italy, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, part of Serbia, Nordic countries, Greenland, Estonia, Republic of Karelia, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan, and Ethiopia.
Christina or Cristina is a feminine given name. It is a simplified form of the Latin Christiana, and a feminine form of Christianus or a Latinized form of the Middle English Christin 'Christian'. Short forms include Chris and Tina. The name is ultimately derived from the original Greek form of the name, Χριστίνα.
Blanka Szávay is a Hungarian tennis player. She is the younger sister of professional tennis player Ágnes Szávay. Szávay has won one ITF tournament in doubles, and has made her first WTA Tour appearance at the 2009 GDF Suez Grand Prix, playing doubles partnering with her sister.
Bianka is a feminine given name in Hungarian,Russian, Polish, Slovak and German.
Blanca is a feminine Spanish given name. Notable people with the name include:
Škoda is a Czech surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Říha is a Czech surname. It may refer to:
Pěnička, is a Czech surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Ljuba is a Slavic given name. In the Serbian language, it is best known as a masculine name, cognate to Ljubomir or Ljubo. In other Slavic languages it's more often a feminine name, cognate to Lyubov, and also spelled Lyuba, Luba, Ľuba (Slovak).
Bohdanov is a Ukrainian-language surname literally meaning "Bohdan's (descendant)". The Russian-language equivalent is Bogdanov, Belarusian: Bahdanau. Bohdanová is a feminine form of Czech surname Bohdan. Notable people with this surname include:
Magda is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of names such as Magdalena, which may refer to:
Laska is a surname with multiple origins. Variations include:
Majka, Slavic-language feminine given name, originally a diminutive of the name Maria or Maja, it can be a spelling variation of Mayka.