Lithuanian Last Names

How this list was compiled: A list by a written rule, built on 3 October 2026 from two public sources. One: English Wiktionary's category of Lithuanian surnames (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Lithuanian_surnames, CC BY-SA 4.0), read that day. A surname is listed when its entry is a man's surname and its headword line gives both women's forms, the married woman's and the unmarried woman's, and when those two forms are the ones the rule in English Wikipedia's article 'Lithuanian name' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_name, read the same day) builds from the man's form: -ienė for a married woman, and for an unmarried woman -aitė from a name in -as or -a, -ytė from -is or -ys, -utė from -us and -iūtė from -ius. Entries whose printed forms differ from that rule were left out, as were names in -jus, whose unmarried form the article does not cover, so every form on a card stands in the dictionary and agrees with the rule. Two: the table of the ten most common surnames in Lithuania in 2015 in English Wikipedia's list of most common surnames in European countries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_common_surnames_in_European_countries, which cites the national statistics office). All ten are listed and marked. For two of them the forms were built by the rule and not copied from the dictionary: Urbonas has no dictionary entry (the table gives Urbonienė; Urbonaitė follows the rule), and for Butkus the dictionary's unmarried form differs from the rule, so the card gives Butkutė, as the article's own example Adamkus, Adamkutė does. The root on a card is the first sentence of the entry's etymology, with the dictionary's stress marks taken off: a Lithuanian word with its meaning, a first or older name with an ending (the dictionary calls many of these patronymics), or a Polish, Russian or Old Ruthenian surname made Lithuanian. Where the dictionary's sentence prints a Russian or Old Ruthenian form in its own script, the card says only that the name is from a Russian surname or from Old Ruthenian; where it names two Polish forms, the card names both. A card gives no root, and stands under No root on the card, where the entry gives none, gives only a comparison, or gives a word about a person's body or character that this site does not print. That makes 712 names: 304 in -as, 125 in -is, 13 in -ys, 7 in -us, 202 in -ius and 61 in -a; 50 with a Lithuanian word, 329 built on a name, 131 from a Slavic surname and 202 with no root on the card. The dictionary's coverage runs heaviest at the start of the alphabet: 234 of the 712 names begin with A or B, so about a third of any draw does. Apart from the ten marked names the list says nothing about how common a name is. A root is what a dictionary records for the name in general, not for any family. Seven entries that passed the rule were left out because their spelling also stands on another list of this site, most of them as first names (Anis, Darius, Jonas, Karijotas, Karvelis, Mindaugas, Pėča); with them out, no name of this list stands on another list of the site, counted on 3 October 2026. No reader of Lithuanian has checked the list. Licence: Drawn from English Wiktionary and English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The selection and the grouping are our own work.