Senta (first name)
Senta is a female given name.
origin
Senta is the name of the main female character in Richard Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman , which premiered in 1843. Only then, from around 1860, was the first name given in Germany. A derivation from the female first names Crescentia or Vincentia cannot be proven.
Name bearers
- Senta Auth (* 1974), German actress
- Senta Baldamus (1920–2001), German sculptor
- Senta Berger (* 1941), Austrian actress
- Senta Bonacker (1906–1975), German actress
- Senta-Sofia Delliponti (* 1990), German singer
- Senta Foltin (1916–2012), Austrian actress
- Senta Geißler (1902–2000), German painter
- Senta Kapoun (1920–2019), Austrian literary translator
- Zenta Mauriņa (also: Maurina, Senta Mauring, 1897–1978), Latvian essayist
- Senta Moira (* 1925), German actress
- Senta Maria Schmid (1908–1992), German dancer and choreographer
- Senta Maria Anna Siller , (* 1935), German designer, calligrapher and entrepreneur
- Senta Trömel-Plötz (* 1939), German linguist, author and feminist
- Senta Wengraf (* 1924), Austrian actress
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rosa and Volker Kohlheim (Editor): Duden. The great first name dictionary. 3. Edition. Dudenverlag, Mannheim 2007. ISBN 978-3411060832