Basque masculine given names

male given name

Aitor is a Basque masculine given name, created by Agosti Xaho for a Basque ancestral patriarch descending from the Biblical Tubal in his work "The Legend of Aitor" (published in French in the journal Ariel, 1845). Koldo Mitxelena believes that Xaho created it from the Souletin Basque expression aitoren semeak or aitonen semeak ("gentry", literally "sons of good fathers" interpreted as "sons of Aitor", aita meaning "father" and on meaning "good") After Xaho, it was popularized by the Spanish-language novel Amaya o los vascos en el siglo VIII. Nowadays it is a common name among Basque males. th

Iñaki is a male given name. It is a neologism created by Sabino Arana meaning Ignatius, to be a Basque language analog to "Ignacio" in Spanish, "Ignace" in French, and "Ignazio" in Italian, and an alternative to the names Eneko and Íñigo.

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Iker is a Basque male given name. The corresponding female name is Ikerne. It was created by the Spanish Basque writer Sabino Arana in his book '' (Collection of Basque Saints' Names'')—an effort to provide neologistic Basque versions of names instead of the traditional adaptations of Romance names. The name may refer to:

male given name

male given name

Sancho is an Iberian given name. Sancho stems from the Latin name Sanctius. The feminine form of the name is Sanchia, and the common patronymic is Sánchez and Sanches.

male given name

male given name

male given name

Urtzi (also ortzi) is an ancient Basque language term which is believed to either represent an old common noun for the sky, or to have been a name for a pre-Christian sky deity.

Gaizka is a male given name of Basque origin, meaning saviour and therefore similar to the (Castilian) Spanish name Salvador or Jesús (The Saviour). Notable people with the name include:

Koldo is a male given name. Notable people with this name include:

Beñat is a Basque masculine given name variant of Bernard, which comes from Germanic origin. There are variants in other languages including the Spanish and Italian Bernardo. While the Basque language does not have a feminine given name equivalent, other languages do, such as the French Bernardine. Beñat is uncommon as a surname. People with the name Beñat include:

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