Vācietis

Vācietis (feminine: Vāciete) is a Latvian ethnonymic surname literally meaning "German person".Laimute Balode, Laura Grīviņa, THE CHANGE OF SURNAMES AND ITS CONSEQUENCES IN LATVIA IN THE 1920S AND 1930S, In: Insights into the Baltic and Finnic Languages, 2022, pp. 21-40 Notable people with the surname include:

Jukums Vācietis (1873–1938), Latvian Soviet military commander (1873–1945), general of the Latvian Armed Forces, Minister of War of Latvia Ojārs Vācietis (1933–1983), Latvian writer