Birute
given name · Lithuanian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Birute is a given name, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country, where it is the 37th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Lithuanian and English, written in the Latin script.
- LTLithuania1 in 114◐
- LVLatvia1 in 620
- USUnited States1 in 1M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈28K ●
- Sources
- 85 ●
- 1 in 114 ◐
across 7 countries
5.6K records
Official registry-verified
Lithuania
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Biruta in LV Latvia, AR Argentina, FI Finland and 7 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | #37 | 24,026△ | 1.7K rec. | 1 in 114 | 24K | Birute | 85 |
| LV Latvia | #223 | 3,032△ | 133 rec. | 1 in 620 | 3K | Biruta | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 430 | 357 rec. | — | — | Birute | 41 |
| NO Norway | — | 353 | 23 rec. | — | 324 | Birute | 9 |
| US United States | — | 317 | 2.5K rec. | 1 in 1M | 317 | Birute | 69 |
| DE Germany | — | 165 | 163 rec. | — | — | Birute | 28 |
| PL Poland | — | 157△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 244K | 157 | Birutė | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | 120 | 100 rec. | — | 1 | Birute | 26 |
| AR Argentina | — | 84 | 90 rec. | — | 2 | Biruta | 13 |
| BR Brazil | — | 80 | 35 rec. | — | — | Birute | 13 |
| CA Canada | — | 70 | 62 rec. | — | — | Birute | 10 |
| FI Finland | — | 60 | 1 rec. | — | 30 | Biruta | 1 |
Roughly 24K people in Lithuania bear this name (about 1 in 114). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Lithuanian50K93%
- English1.9K3%
- Spanish3731%
- Norwegian Bokmål3241%
- German2581%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Lithuanian | 50,393 | 93% |
| English | 1,873 | 3% |
| Spanish | 373 | 1% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 324 | 1% |
| German | 258 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Birute is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 14 |
| 2008 | 17 |
| 2009 | 17 |
| 2010 | 19 |
| 2011 | 20 |
| 2012 | 23 |
| 2013 | 23 |
| 2014 | 26 |
| 2015 | 27 |
| 2016 | 29 |
| 2017 | 29 |
| 2018 | 30 |
| 2019 | 30 |
| 2020 | 28 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 15 years between 2006–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Birutė Ciplijauskaitėb. 1929CALithuanian-Canadian literary scholar and translator (1929-2017)
- Birutė Kalėdienėb. 1934LTLithuanian javelin thrower
- Birutė Almonaitytėb. 1934LTLithuanian opera singer
- Birutė Baltrušaitytėb. 1940LTLithuanian writer and literary scholar (1940-1996)
- Birutė Galdikasb. 1946CALithuanian-Canadian primatologist conservationist (1946–2026)
- Birutė Teodora Visokavičienėb. 1946LTLithuanian politician
- Birutė Vėsaitėb. 1951LTpolitician from Lithuanian
- Birutė Užkuraitytėb. 1953LTLithuanian swimmer
- Birutė Jonuškaitėb. 1959LTLithuanian poet
- Birutė Šakickienėb. 1968LTLithuanian rower
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●
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 324 | #3,371 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 317 | #28,373 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 87 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 87 | #1,256 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 51 | #12,091 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 51 | #27,372 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 30 | #19,004 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 30 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 30 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 29 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 29 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 28 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 47 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Birute?
- We estimate roughly 28 thousand people bear Birute (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Birute have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 24 thousand people bear Birute in Lithuania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled birute.
- Where is Birute most common?
- Birute is densest in Lithuania, where the national register counts about 1 in 114 people carrying it.
- How common is Birute compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Birute is the 37th most common given name of 5,871 given names recorded there.
- Is Birute a male or female name?
- Birute 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/biruteThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Birute” — the 37th most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.