Indre (first name)

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Indre or Indrė is a feminine given name from Lithuania .

variants

Indraja, Indra

origin

The name comes from the Lithuanian, and is probably derived from the term Nendre ("reed"). Another explanation is that the name comes from Baltic mythology. Indre is the daughter of the sun goddess Saule, corresponds to the 5th planet Jupiter.

He became popular through the novel Die Reise nach Tilsit by Hermann Sudermann .

The name is very rare in German-speaking countries. In Lithuania it is a common female given name.

There are no well-known personalities.

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.baby-vornamen.de/Maedchen/I/In/Indre/

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Memell%C3%A4ndische_Vornamen