Given name
Imants
“wonder”
Imants is a masculine given name from Livonian, meaning “wonder.” It is used in Latvian.
Meaning & origin
Imants’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Imants
- Imants ZiedonisLatvian poet (1933–2013)
- Imants BleidelisLatvian footballerborn 1975
- Imants BodnieksLatvian cyclistborn 1941
- Imants KalniņšLatvian composer (born 1941)
- Imants LieģisLatvian diplomat (born 1955)
- Imants SudmalisSoviet Latvian partisan, Hero of the Soviet Union (1916-1944)
- Imants KokarsLatvian pedagogue and conductor (1921–2011)
- Imants FreibergsLatvian computer scientist (1934–2026)
- Imants LancmanisLatvian art historian and painter (born 1941)
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