Norkus

Norkus is a Lithuanian language family name. This surname originates from a nickname which is a derivative of the Lithuanian pre-Christian name Norkantas, which includes the stem noras ‘wish’, ‘desire’, ‘will’ or noréti ‘to want’.

Notable people with the surname include:

• Aušrinė Norkienė
• Caleb Norkus, an American soccer player
• Herbert Norkus, a Nazi martyr, a Hitler Youth member murdered by German Communists
• Kiley Norkus, American women's soccer player
• Renata Mieńkowska-Norkiene [pl] (born 11980), Poloish polityologist and sociologist
• Ruta Norkiene, a Lithuanian female curler
• Vytautas Norkus, a 1939 Lithuania national basketball team player

See also

• All pages with titles containing Norkus
• All pages with titles containing Norkiene
• All pages with titles containing Norkute
• All pages with titles containing Nowke

References

Surname list

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