Gimbutas
Gimbutas is a Lithuanian surname originated as a two-stemmed pre-Christian Lithuanian name: gim-, likely from gin- gi̇̀nti and but- from bū́ti, "to be". The first recorded usage of the name is from the legendary dynasty of Palemonids: Gimburas, duke of Samogitia. The name was recorded in several forms: Gémbuta, Gémbūta, Gémbutas, Gimbutis, Gimbūtis. In Belarus there are villages associated with the name: and .
Notable people with the surname include:
- , Lithuanian draughts composer and solver, draughts activist
- ,, architect, Lithuanian press and public figure, doctor of engineering sciences
- Marija Gimbutas, Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist