Given name

Dainis

“folk song”

Dainis is a masculine given name. It is used in Latvian.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Dainis goes back to a word meaning “folk song.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In Latvian usage, Dainis is a masculine form of Daina.

Dainis’s family of names

In Latvian usage, Dainis is a masculine form of Daina.

Walk Dainis’s family in the name graph

DainisDainaDainius

The ring: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Dainis, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.