Given name

Gints

“to defend”

Gints is a masculine given name from Lithuanian. It is used in Latvian.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Gints goes back to a word meaning “to defend.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where it comes from

Gints comes from Lithuanian.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Gints’s family of names

In Latvian usage, Gints has a feminine form in GINTA.

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