Gender: Masculine
Origin: Hungarian
Meaning: “dogwood.”
(SHUH-maw)
The name is derived from the Hungarian plant word, som, which means “dogwood.”
In earlier times, it was used as a vernacular form of Cornelius as the Latin name for the dogwood is cornus.
The designated name-day in Hungary is July 3.
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Gender: Masculine
Origin: Lithuanian
Meaning: “to think strong like a tree.”
(mahn-DRAH-vahs)
The name is composed of the Lithuanian elements, man- (manyti) meaning, “to think” and dravas meaning, “thick as a tree; or strong as a tree.”
The feminine form is Mandravė.
The designated name-day is February 27.
Gender: Feminine
Origin: Finnish
Meaning: “thuya tree.”
The name is derived from the Finnish word for the thuya tree, which is a species of cypress tree named by Carl Von Linné.
Linné took the name from the Greek, thyein, meaning, “to sacrifice.”
The designated name-day is February 25.
Gender: Feminine
Origin: Czech
Meaning: “oak grove”
(doo-BRAHF-kah)
The name is derived from the Old Slavonic, dubrava, meaning “oak grove.”
In Ancient European culture, oak groves were considered especially sacred.
The name was borne by a medieval Bohemian princess (945-977), a member of the Přemyslid dynasty, she became Queen of Poland through her marriage with Mieszko I, and according to some sources, she was the one who goaded her husband into accepting Christianity in 966.
In Polish she is known as Dąbrówka or Dobrawa.
Other forms include:
A Serbo-Croatian masculine form is Dubravko Дубравко.
Czech diminutives are: Doubra, Doubravuše, Dora, Dobruše, Duběnka, Dorka, Doubí and Duba.
The designated name-day in the Czech Republic is January 19.
Gender: Feminine
Origin: Icelandic
Meaning: “pine tree.”
(FEU-rah) the u is somewhat akin to the French eu sound.
The name comes from the Icelandic word for pine tree, according to the Icelandic Registry, only 3 women bore the name as of 2007.
Gender: Feminine
Origin: Icelandic/Faroese
Meaning: “oak”
Ice (AKE)
The name is an Icelandic and Faroese female name and comes from the Old Norse word for “oak”. It remains the word for oak in Dutch, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese. However, its usage as a female given name is exclusive to both Iceland and the Faroe Islands. The Danish word for oak (eg), the Swedish word for oak (ek) and the German word for oak (eiche) share the same etymological root.
According to the Icelandic Registry, 18 women bore Eik as a first name and 110 bore it as a middle name.
Gender: feminine
Origin: Finnish
Meaning: “bush, branch” (poetic)
Pronunciation can be heard here: http://www.forvo.com/search/Virpi/
The name is used in a poetic sense to describe a bush, branch or young tree. Its designated name-day is November 12, and the name is fairly common in Finland.
Gender: Masculine
Origin: Slovenian
Meaning: “pine tree.”
(BOR) rolled R
The name currently ranks in as the 45th most popular male name in Slovenia, it comes from the Slovenian word for pine tree but may have been popularized by Slovene national author, poet, playwright, translator and partisan, Matej Bor, (borne Vladimir Pavšič), the former being a pen name (1913-1993).
It is also the name of several places names throughout Eastern Europe, there are a few villages in Poland that bear the name, as well as in the Czech Republic, Russia and it is the name of a city in Serbia.
There is a feminine form Borjana, also the name of a place in Slovenia.
Gender: Feminine
Gender: Feminine