Topic Short form
| Description: | Short form of a name or part of a name which is now also used as a full given name in its own right |
| Name | Group | Language of Origin | Languages of Use | Meaning/Translation or Related Words | US 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viggo | Viggo/Vigga | Scandinavian | Scandinavian | Words: fight, battle | |
| Vlad | Vlad | Old Slavic | Romanian, Russian | Words: rule | |
| Walo | Walo | Old High German | German | Words: rule | |
| Wendel | Wendelin/Wendelina | Old High German | German | Words: Wend | |
| Wendelin | Wendelin/Wendelina | Old High German | German | Words: Wend | |
| Wendelina | Wendelin/Wendelina | Old High German | German | Words: Wend | |
| Wendell | Wendelin/Wendelina | Old High German | English | Words: Wend | |
| Winka | Winka | German | German | ||
| Wolf | Wolf | Old High German | German | Words: wolf | |
| Wulf | Wolf | Old High German | German | Words: wolf | |
| Zen | Zeno | Old Greek | English | ||
| Zeno | Zeno | Old Greek | German, English | ||
| Zénó | Zeno | Old Greek | Hungarian | ||
| Zenone | Zeno | Old Greek | Italian |