Given name
Žanis
Žanis is a masculine given name from French. It is used in Latvian.
Meaning & origin
Žanis’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Žanis
- Žanis PeinersLatvian basketball player (born 1990)
- Žanis AnsonsLatvian SS officer (1911–1968)
- Žanis GrīvaLatvian children's writer (1910-1982)
- Žanis ButkusLatvian SS officer (1906–1999)
- Žanis BahsLatvian military personnel (1885-1941)
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