Nijolė is a
Lithuania
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...
n feminine
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...
. It is one of the numerous
pseudomythological names invented in the 19th century by Lithuanian writer
Teodor Narbutt
Teodor Narbutt (; 8 November 1784 – 27 November 1864) was a Polish–Lithuanian romantic historian and military engineer in service of the Russian Empire. He is best remembered as the author of a nine-volume Polish-language history of Lithuani ...
for Lithuanian pagan mythology (in his book the name was given in Polish language style "Nijola").
[Theodor Narbutt, ''Dzieje staroźytne narodu litewskiego: Mytologia Litewska'', 1835]
p. 66
/ref> See List of Lithuanian gods and mythological figures for more.
Notable people with the name Nijolė include:
* Nijolė Ambrazaitytė (1939–2016), Lithuanian opera singer and politician
* Nijolė Būraitė (born 1956), Lithuanian painter and painting restorer
* Nijolė Medvedeva (born 1960), Lithuanian long jumper
* Nijolė Oželytė-Vaitiekūnienė (born 1954), Lithuanian actress
* Nijolė Sabaitė (born 1950), Lithuanian middle distance runner
* Nijolė Sadūnaitė (born 1938), Lithuanian Catholic nun and Soviet dissident
See also
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References
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Lithuanian feminine given names
Feminine given names