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SANSKRIT GIRL NAMES WITH THEIR MEANING
■ Vega वेगा -quickness, speed, velocity
● Vegita वेगिता- speed, velocity
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■ Vega वेगा -quickness, speed, velocity
● Vegita वेगिता- speed, velocity
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The name Vega. Yes...
Vega is a shortened version of the older and original name "De La Vega", which means "Of the Vega", which further translated would mean "Of the plain/meadow". This was used to describe the people of an area in Spain around the Castille region, in the northwestern area. These people were "Of the Vega". This name has existed for more than 1000 years and it is the name of a powerful and influential house of Spanish nobility, even famous for its ambitions in trying to usurp the crown from time to time. Hence in Spain if you were related to the Vega bloodline, you would be called by your first name, and following it would be your family house name, such as "Ricardo... Of the Vega".
I facepalm every time some ignorant buffoon mentions Street Fighter to me because of my name, and hope they will stop talking to me so I won't have to endure their ignorance any longer.
There is also a city in the middle of the Nevada desert which is called Las Vegas, and it acquired this name because of settlers which were heading west (presumably toward California) who stopped on their way there to rest, and they found an oasis in the middle of the desert, which they named as "Las Vegas", or "The meadow/The oasis". Even to this day, Las Vegas is still true to its name as being an oasis in the middle of an otherwise barren desert.
Interestingly however, the name Vega, being of nobility, did not expand much outside of Spain. There were three recorded Vegas who left Spain in the early nineteenth century, (though more likely left for the New World as early as the sixteenth century, like most wealthy young sons of Spanish nobility) and two of them settled in Central America while the other one settled in Puerto Rico. Due to the Vegas being Catholic and Spanish they were encouraged to have many children, and over a few hundred years and some migrations every once in a while, there are now Vegas in North and South America as well as the Caribbean. Ultimately there are roughly 100,000 Vegas living in America, Puerto Rico, and Spain, and possibly more in Latin America or the Phillipines. And they are all related to each other. Anyone with the name Vega whose parents had the name Vega is related to anyone else whose parent's name was Vega, even if the name belonged to a person's mother and was changed upon their mother's marriage.
This means that anyone with Vega lineage has more than 100, 000 identifiable relatives, though I would say the number is closer to 150, 000 or maybe even 200, 000. It also means that should you have Vega lineage and you are marrying someone else with Vega lineage, then the both of you are already related, though this relation may be very thin depending on how you trace your ancestry, but it was common for Spanish nobility to marry their cousins and so this should cause no alarm.
Unfortunately since Spain was managed by utterly worthless monarchs and spent centuries in bankruptcy due to horrible economic practices, it is doubtful that any property or possessions of the Vega house still exist if they aren't quietly hoarded by a few families of the Vega who still live in the original area of the noble line. It is, however, theoretically possible to request the King of Spain to grant a title of nobility to one who bears the name of Vega should they choose to attain Spanish citizenship and spend their lives contributing to Spanish society. The plus side of this is that Spanish nobility do not have to pay taxes, and thus is incredibly enticing to an American.
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Vega is a shortened version of the older and original name "De La Vega", which means "Of the Vega", which further translated would mean "Of the plain/meadow". This was used to describe the people of an area in Spain around the Castille region, in the northwestern area. These people were "Of the Vega". This name has existed for more than 1000 years and it is the name of a powerful and influential house of Spanish nobility, even famous for its ambitions in trying to usurp the crown from time to time. Hence in Spain if you were related to the Vega bloodline, you would be called by your first name, and following it would be your family house name, such as "Ricardo... Of the Vega".
I facepalm every time some ignorant buffoon mentions Street Fighter to me because of my name, and hope they will stop talking to me so I won't have to endure their ignorance any longer.
There is also a city in the middle of the Nevada desert which is called Las Vegas, and it acquired this name because of settlers which were heading west (presumably toward California) who stopped on their way there to rest, and they found an oasis in the middle of the desert, which they named as "Las Vegas", or "The meadow/The oasis". Even to this day, Las Vegas is still true to its name as being an oasis in the middle of an otherwise barren desert.
Interestingly however, the name Vega, being of nobility, did not expand much outside of Spain. There were three recorded Vegas who left Spain in the early nineteenth century, (though more likely left for the New World as early as the sixteenth century, like most wealthy young sons of Spanish nobility) and two of them settled in Central America while the other one settled in Puerto Rico. Due to the Vegas being Catholic and Spanish they were encouraged to have many children, and over a few hundred years and some migrations every once in a while, there are now Vegas in North and South America as well as the Caribbean. Ultimately there are roughly 100,000 Vegas living in America, Puerto Rico, and Spain, and possibly more in Latin America or the Phillipines. And they are all related to each other. Anyone with the name Vega whose parents had the name Vega is related to anyone else whose parent's name was Vega, even if the name belonged to a person's mother and was changed upon their mother's marriage.
This means that anyone with Vega lineage has more than 100, 000 identifiable relatives, though I would say the number is closer to 150, 000 or maybe even 200, 000. It also means that should you have Vega lineage and you are marrying someone else with Vega lineage, then the both of you are already related, though this relation may be very thin depending on how you trace your ancestry, but it was common for Spanish nobility to marry their cousins and so this should cause no alarm.
Unfortunately since Spain was managed by utterly worthless monarchs and spent centuries in bankruptcy due to horrible economic practices, it is doubtful that any property or possessions of the Vega house still exist if they aren't quietly hoarded by a few families of the Vega who still live in the original area of the noble line. It is, however, theoretically possible to request the King of Spain to grant a title of nobility to one who bears the name of Vega should they choose to attain Spanish citizenship and spend their lives contributing to Spanish society. The plus side of this is that Spanish nobility do not have to pay taxes, and thus is incredibly enticing to an American.
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Vega is also a Spanish feminine name, meaning "meadow". It appears to have arisen as a given name because of the Marian title "Nuestra Señora [or Santa María] de la Vega" (Our Lady of the Meadow). She is the patron saint of Salamanca (the feast day is 8th September) and there is also a Basilica of Nuestra Señora de la Vega located in the province of La Rioja. The name has been traditionally used in those areas, but it appears that in recent years it has been popularised in the rest of Spain by the singer Vega (whose real name is Mercedes Mígel Carpio).
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Vega means "fertile lowland adjacent to a river which is irrigated and sometimes flooded by it" in Spanish. That's what Las Vegas means.
If Spanish wasn't my mother language I would love this name.
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If Spanish wasn't my mother language I would love this name.
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Vega also means "falling star" in Latin. I really love that name. It's a shame I could never make the husband consider it.
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■ Origin - Sanskrit, Hindi, Indian.