Daiva
given name · Lithuanian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Daiva is a given name, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Lithuanian and English, written in the Latin script.
- LTLithuania1 in 122◐
- USUnited States1 in 738K
- ISIceland1 in 9.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈24K ●
- Sources
- 118 ●
- 1 in 122 ◐
across 12 countries
5.4K records
Official registry-verified
Lithuania
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | #38 | 22,429△ | 3.4K rec. | 1 in 122 | 22K | Daiva | 118 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 542 | 311 rec. | — | — | Daiva | 52 |
| US United States | — | 451 | 916 rec. | 1 in 738K | 451 | Daiva | 101 |
| NO Norway | — | 270△ | 57 rec. | 1 in 20K | 1.1K | Daiva | 17 |
| ES Spain | — | 147 | 79 rec. | 1 in 340K | 147 | Daiva | 28 |
| LV Latvia | — | 118△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 16K | 118 | Daiva | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 98 | — | 1 in 2.2M | 107 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 92 | 350 rec. | 1 in 111K | 92 | Daiva | 15 |
| DK Denmark | — | 79 | — | 1 in 74K | 79 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | — | 78 | 69 rec. | — | — | Daiva | 14 |
| PL Poland | — | 52 | 0 rec. | 1 in 736K | 52 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | 36 | — | 1 in 9.7K | 36 | — | — |
Roughly 22K people in Lithuania bear this name (about 1 in 122). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Lithuanian77K88%
- English2.8K3%
- Portuguese1.4K2%
- Hindi1.3K1%
- Norwegian Bokmål1.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Lithuanian | 76,687 | 88% |
| English | 2,810 | 3% |
| Portuguese | 1,427 | 2% |
| Hindi | 1,279 | 1% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 1,072 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Daiva is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, katra no vienveidīgām, norobežotām daļiņām, kas veido veselo
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1964 | 8 |
| 1965 | 6 |
| 1966 | 10 |
| 1967 | 12 |
| 1968 | 8 |
| 1969 | 12 |
| 1970 | 12 |
| 1971 | 15 |
| 1972 | 12 |
| 1973 | 11 |
| 1974 | 15 |
| 1975 | 10 |
| 1976 | 7 |
| 1977 | 15 |
| 1978 | 12 |
| 1979 | 8 |
| 1980 | 7 |
| 1981 | 10 |
| 1982 | 9 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1984 | 4 |
| 1985 | 11 |
| 1986 | 7 |
| 1987 | 12 |
| 1988 | 11 |
| 1989 | 6 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 26 years between 1964–1989. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Daiva Mongirdaitėb. 1938LTLithuanian opera singer
- Daiva Kšanienėb. 1943LTLithuanian musicologist and university teacher
- Daiva Petrulytėb. 1957LTLithuanian costumes designer
- Daiva Jodeikaitėb. 1966LTLithuania basketball player
- Daiva Tamošiūnaitėb. 1966LTLithuanian voice actor, television presenter and politician
- Daiva Žebelienėb. 1968LTLithuanian politician (born 1968)
- Daiva Vaitkevičienėb. 1969LTLithuanian folklorist (born 1969)
- Daiva Čepelienėb. 1970LTracing cyclist
- Daiva Batytėb. 1980LTLithuanian chess player and chess coach
- Daiva Tušlaitėb. 1986LTLithuanian cyclist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 37 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 234 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Daiva?
- We estimate roughly 24 thousand people bear Daiva (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Daiva have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 22 thousand people bear Daiva in Lithuania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled daiva.
- Where is Daiva most common?
- Daiva is densest in Lithuania, where the national register counts about 1 in 122 people carrying it.
- How common is Daiva compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Daiva is the 38th most common given name of 5,871 given names recorded there.
- Is Daiva a male or female name?
- Daiva is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Daiva” — the 38th most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.