Biruta

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Birute in LT Lithuania, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 16 more and Birutė in PL Poland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Biruta is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name1.3K records spelled Biruta6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Bíruta

• Polish given name1.0K records spelled Biruta3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States

  Also written Birute, Birutė

• Croatian given name17 records spelled Biruta11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Latvia, United States

  Also written Birute, Birutė

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Biruta is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, aus dem Polnischen übernommener weibl. Vom. Es handelt sich um einen ursprünglich litauischen Namen (litauisch

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Russian, var of Biriuta.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In Portuguese, windsock

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●

• Birutėb. 1325LTnot in their usual nameconsort of Prince Kestutis
• Biruta Skujenieceb. 1888LVLatvian actress, poet
• Biruta Baumaneb. 1922LVLatvian painter (1922–2017)
• Biruta Fąfrowiczb. 1926PLPolish pulmonologist (1926–2018)
• Biruta Lewaszkiewicz-Petrykowskab. 1927PLPolish jurist
• Biruta Veldreb. 1934LVLatvian film director
• Biruta Delleb. 1944LVLatvian painter (1944-2025)
• Biruta Khertseva-Khertsbergab. 1944LVSoviet canoeist
• Biruta Jansoneb. 1949LVLatvian artist
• Biruta Ozoliņab. 1959LVLatvian singer and folk musician

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 46 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Biruta?

We estimate roughly 28 thousand people bear Biruta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Biruta have the most bearers?

We estimate about 24 thousand people bear Biruta in Lithuania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled birute.

Where is Biruta most common?

Biruta is densest in Lithuania, where the national register counts about 1 in 114 people carrying it.

How common is Biruta compared with other names?

In Lithuania, Biruta is the 37th most common given name of 5,871 given names recorded there.

Is Biruta a male or female name?

Biruta is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Biruta mean?

Recorded meaning: Sievietes vārds