Viesturs (name)

Viesturs
Gender	Male
Language(s)	Latvian
Name day	28 June
Origin
Word/name	viesturis
Meaning	hospitable
Region of origin	Latvia
Other names
Related names	Viestarts, Viestdards

Viesturs is both a Latvian masculine given name, and less commonly, a surname. The name is derived from the Latvian viesturis, meaning "hospitable". The first recorded usage of the name in the areas of modern-day Latvia date from the 12th and 13th-centuries.^[2]

Individuals bearing the name Viesturs include:

Given name

Viesturs (also, Viestards, Viesthard, and Vesthardus; d. 1230), Semigallian duke
Viesturs Bērziņš (born 1974), Latvian cyclist
Viesturs Kairišs (born 1971), Latvian opera, film, and theatre director
Viesturs Koziols (born 1963), Latvian real estate developer, media and sports entrepreneur, photographer, and political and public figure
Viesturs Lukševics (born 1987), Latvian cyclist
Viesturs Meijers (born 1967), Latvian chess Grandmaster

Surname

Ed Viesturs (born 1959), American mountaineer

^ "Latvian Name Days". Behind the Name. 2022. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
^ ^a ^b Siliņš, Klavs (1990). Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca (in Latvian). Riga: Zinātne. ISBN 9785796602782.

[Day-1] "Latvian Name Days". Behind the Name. 2022. Retrieved 30 January 2023.

[Klavs-2] Siliņš, Klavs (1990). Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca (in Latvian). Riga: Zinātne. ISBN 9785796602782.

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