Ieva

given name · Lithuanian · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ieva is a given name, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Lithuanian and Latvian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Eve (biblical character).

rarermore common
  • LTLithuania1 in 132
  • LVLatvia1 in 197
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 98K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈32K

across 11 countries

Sources
131

13K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 132

Lithuania

Meaning & origin

Eve (biblical character)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ieva is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LT Lithuania#1120,6584.3K rec.1 in 13248KIeva131
LV Latvia#359,5491.7K rec.1 in 1979.5KIeva94
GB United Kingdom2,1111.5K rec.3Ieva80
DE Germany508471 rec.Ieva72
US United States4262.7K rec.1 in 781K426Ieva100
RU Russia370446 rec.Ieva7
NO Norway358135 rec.1 in 15K1.4KIeva25
AU Australia291261 rec.1Ieva43
SE Sweden20568 rec.1 in 50K205Ieva18
ES Spain176145 rec.1 in 284K176Ieva23
NL Netherlands175122 rec.listedIeva18
DK Denmark1582 rec.1 in 37K1582

Roughly 21K people in Lithuania bear this name (about 1 in 132). 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

  • Lithuanian167K87%
  • Latvian14K7%
  • English3.2K2%
  • Norwegian Bokmål1.4K1%
  • Spanish8311%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Lithuanian167,26387%
Latvian13,8337%
English3,1782%
Norwegian Bokmål1,4181%
Spanish8311%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way

Ieva is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name603 records spelled Ieva8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Latvia, United States, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Иева, Йева, I︠E︡va, Įeva

  • Bulgarian given name371 records spelled Ieva7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, United Kingdom, United States, Russia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian

    Also written Иева

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

Ieva is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Rožu dzimtas ģints ("Padus"), koks vai krūms ar sīkiem, baltiem, stipri smaržojošiem ziediem ķekaros un melnām ogām

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Ebreju, kristietības un islāma mitoloģijā - kopā ar Ādamu - pirmie cilvēki

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, šī koka vai krūma ziedu ķekari vai zari ar ziedu ķekariem

    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

010203040198019902000201035 · 1989

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Ieva in SSB — Navn (1880–present), Norway, 1971–2019
Yearrecords
19714
19725
19756
19785
19798
19809
19818
198212
198310
198412
198512
198612
198714
19889
198935
199019
199119
199214
199316
199410
199510
19969
19976
19995
20054
20094
20117
20125
20156
20184
20194

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present)31 years between 1971–2019. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

1850190019502000Ieva Paldiņa, b. 1896Ieva Simonaitytė, b. 1897Ieva Akuratere, b. 1958Ieva Ilves, b. 1977Ieva Kubliņa, b. 1982Ieva Bidermane, b. 1984Ieva Narkutė, b. 1987Ieva Andrejevaité, b. 1988Ieva Lagūna, b. 1990

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 41 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Ieva
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LT LithuaniaVLKK — Lietuvos Respublikos piliečių vardų sąvadas (recommended names)48K
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — top-50 given names21K#30
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — Populiariausi naujagimių vardai21K#30
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)9.5K
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)9.5K#37
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)1.4K#1,329
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020426#23,042
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025358
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2022358
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2024356
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2023351
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2021345

Reference works 4

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 241 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ieva?
We estimate roughly 32 thousand people bear Ieva (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Ieva have the most bearers?
We estimate about 21 thousand people bear Ieva in Lithuania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ieva.
Where is Ieva most common?
Ieva is densest in Lithuania, where the national register counts about 1 in 132 people carrying it.
How common is Ieva compared with other names?
In Lithuania, Ieva is the 11th most common given name of 5,871 given names recorded there.
Is Ieva a male or female name?
Ieva 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.
What does the name Ieva mean?
Recorded meaning: Eve (biblical character)
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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, “Ieva” — the 11th most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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