Given name
Rimantas
“to calm down”·“property”
Rimantas is a masculine given name. It is used in Lithuanian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Rimantas is built from elements meaning “to calm down” and “property”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Built from Lithuanian ri̇̀mti (“to calm down”) + mantà (“property”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1957. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Rimantas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 6 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1957
- 6 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 boys is 6 in 1957. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 126 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.
Rimantas’s family of names
In Lithuanian usage, Rimantas has a diminutive in MANTAS. In Lithuanian usage, Rimantas shares an earlier linguistic root with Rimundas. In Lithuanian usage, Rimantas has a diminutive in RIMAS.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Rimantas
- Rimantas KaukėnasLithuanian basketball player (born 1977)
- Rimantas ŠadžiusLithuanian politicianborn 1960
- Rimantas NorvilaLithuanian catholic bishopborn 1957
- Rimantas StankevičiusSoviet test pilot, cosmonaut (1944-1990)
- Rimantas SinkevičiusLithuanian politicianborn 1952
- Rimantas TaraškevičiusLithuanian mayorborn 1949
- Rimantas GrigasLithuanian basketball coachborn 1962
- Rimantas DagysLithuanian chemist and politicianborn 1957
- Rimantas BagdonasLithuanian amateur wrestlerborn 1938
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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