Lithuanian names?

Question

where does this name come from------- Savodnikas

Answer 1

It's not an ethnic Lithuanian name.  It's a Slavic last name 'Savodnik' with a Lithuanian ending -as.  We do that when translating/pronouncing foreign names.

Answer 2

Lithuanian family names have the Slavic patronymic ending -avičius, -evičius.

http://www.lituanus.org/1982_3/82_3_01.h...

Lithuanian surnames (probably from emaitija?) are short and end with '-kus': 'Butkus', 'Bartkus', Vaitkus', 'Vitkus', Jankus', 'Kartkus', etc.

http://www.geocities.com/cjzemaitis@sbcg...

Most popular Lithuanian surnames 2007

For men

1 Kazlauskas

2 Stankevičius

3 Jankauskas

4 Petrauskas

5 Vasiliauskas  

6 Žukauskas

7 Paulauskas

8 Urbonas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mos...

Kaunas Region (No.22) Constituency

List candidates of Lithuanian Democratic Labour Party

6 Darius SAVODNIKAS

http://www3.lrs.lt/rinkimai/1995/savival...

I think it is fair to believe Savodnikas is a Lithuanian name !