- Gender: Feminine
- Origin: Latvian
- Meaning: “reddish; rosy; glowing; bonfire”
- Pron: SAHR-tuh
From the Latvian adjective sārts, which has two closely related meanings, either “reddish, rosy, flushed with color” or “bonfire, blaze.”
An extremely rare traditional Latvian female name, it was first and only recorded in Zemgale (Dobele) in 1929, even though it had already appeared in the Latvian name calendar of 1879.
(Source: Kalnājiņa & Švābe, KS 285.)
A rare masculine form is Sārtis, documented only once in Riga in the 1930s.
Sārtone is another variation, which is also only been record one time in Latvia in the 1920s.
Sources
- Balodis, Pauls. Latviešu personvārdu etimoloģiskās semantikas teorētiskais modelis un tā realizācija. Doctoral dissertation, University of Latvia, 2008. https://dspace.lu.lv/server/api/core/bitstreams/ca9c09cf-e952-4022-9ac3-cb1bfaf27530/content
- https://www.behindthename.com/name/sa23rta/submitted
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%C4%81rts#Latvian