Given name
Biruta
Biruta is a feminine given name from Lithuanian. It is used in Latvian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Biruta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1916. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 118 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Biruta’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Biruta
- Birutėconsort of Prince Kestutis1325–1382
- Biruta BaumaneLatvian painter (1922–2017)
- Biruta Lewaszkiewicz-PetrykowskaPolish jurist1927–2022
- Biruta DelleLatvian painter (1944-2025)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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