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Valdas m Lithuanian
Short form of Valdemaras and other Lithuanian names containing the Baltic/Germanic element vald "rule".

Valdis m Latvian
Short form of Voldemārs and other Latvian names containing the Baltic/Germanic element vald "rule".

Vasco m Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
From the medieval Spanish name Velasco, which possibly meant "crow" in Basque. A famous bearer was the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama (c. 1460-1524), the first person to sail from Europe around Africa to India.

Veca f Serbian
Diminutive of Vesna.

Veikko m Finnish
From a colloquial form of the Finnish word veli meaning "brother".

Veiko m Estonian
Estonian form of Veikko.

Velasco m Medieval Spanish
Medieval Spanish form of Vasco.

Veles m Slavic Mythology
Possibly derived from Old Slavic volŭ meaning "ox" or velĭ meaning "great". Veles or Volos was the Slavic god of cattle, also associated with the earth, wealth and the underworld.

Veli m Finnish
Means "brother" in Finnish.

Vello m Estonian
From a diminutive form of the Estonian word veli meaning "brother".

Vesna f Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Slavic Mythology
Means "spring" in many Slavic languages. This was the name of a Slavic spirit associated with the springtime. It has been used as a given name only since the 20th century.

Vida 4 f Lithuanian
Feminine form of Vidas.

Vidas m Lithuanian
Short form of Vidmantas, used independently.

Vidmantas m Lithuanian
From the Lithuanian root vyd- "to see" combined with mantus "intelligent" or manta "property, wealth".

Viivi f Finnish, Estonian
Finnish and Estonian form of Vivi.

Vilja f Finnish, Estonian
Possibly from the Finnish word vilja meaning "cereal, grain" or the Swedish word vilja meaning "will, intent".

Viljar 1 m Estonian
Estonian masculine form of Vilja.

Vilmantas m Lithuanian
From Lithuanian viltis "hope" combined with mantus "intelligent" or manta "property, wealth".

Vilmantė f Lithuanian
Feminine form of Vilmantas.

Viltautas m Lithuanian (Rare)
From Lithuanian viltis "hope" and tauta "people, nation".

Viltautė f Lithuanian (Rare)
Feminine form of Viltautas.

Viltė f Lithuanian
Short form of Viltautė.

Visvaldas m Lithuanian
Lithuanian cognate of Visvaldis.

Visvaldis m Latvian
From Latvian viss "all" and valdīt "to rule". It is thus a cognate of the Slavic name Vsevolod.

Vitold m Russian, Ukrainian
Russian and Ukrainian form of Witold.

Vivi f Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
Scandinavian diminutive of names beginning with Vi, as well as Olivia and Sofia.

Volha f Belarusian
Belarusian form of Olga.

Volos m Slavic Mythology
Variant of Veles.

Vydmantas m Lithuanian
Variant of Vidmantas.

Vytautas m Lithuanian
From the Lithuanian root vyd- "to see" or vyti "to chase, to drive away" combined with tauta "people, nation". This was the name of a 15th-century Grand Duke of Lithuania, revered as a national hero in that country.

Vytautė f Lithuanian
Feminine form of Vytautas.

Wallace m English, Scottish
From a Scottish and English surname that was derived from Norman French waleis meaning "foreigner, Celt, Welshman" (of Germanic origin). It was first used as a given name in honour of William Wallace, a Scottish hero who led the fight against the English in the 13th century.

Wallis m & f English (Rare)
From a surname that was a variant of Wallace. Wallis Simpson (1895-1986) was the divorced woman whom Edward VIII married, which forced him to abdicate the British throne.

Wally m English
Diminutive of Walter or Wallace.

Winoc m Breton
Variant of Gwenneg.

Wischard m Old Norman
Norman form of Guiscard.

Witek m Polish
Diminutive of Witold or Wit.

Witołd m Polish (Archaic)
Polish variant of Witold.

Witold m Polish
Polish form of Vytautas. Alternatively it could be derived from the Old German name Widald.

Yağmur f & m Turkish, Azerbaijani
Means "rain" in Turkish and Azerbaijani.

Yıldız f Turkish
Means "star" in Turkish.

Yo'ldosh m Uzbek
Means "comrade, fellow traveller" in Uzbek.

Yulduz f Uzbek
Means "star" in Uzbek.

Zaurbek m Ossetian, Chechen
Derived from Arabic زوار (zawār) meaning "pilgrim" combined with the Turkic military title beg meaning "chieftain, master".

Zhuldyz f Kazakh
Means "star" in Kazakh.

Zhyldyz f Kyrgyz
Alternate transcription of Kyrgyz Жылдыз (see Jyldyz).

Živa f Slavic Mythology, Slovene, Serbian
From the Old Slavic word živŭ meaning "alive, living". According to the 12th-century Saxon priest Helmold, this was the name of a Slavic goddess possibly associated with life or fertility.