Iva

given name · Czech · Latin script

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

Iva is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Croatia it is the 5th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: acronym of imposto sobre o valor acrescentado (“value added tax”).

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 35◐
  • SESweden1 in 55
  • HUHungary1 in 64

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

≈1.7M ●

across 16 countries

#443 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
460 ●

2.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 35 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

EvaLatin · English●1.6M records
ЕваCyrillic · Russian●362K records
ᲘვანაGeorgian · Georgian●12 records
이바Hangul · Korean●6 records
ΊβαναGreek · Greek●0 records

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Eva in CZ Czechia, US United States, SE Sweden and 14 more, Ева in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, FI Finland and 1 more, Ivana in HR Croatia, RS Serbia and Ивана in FR France, MK North Macedonia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

acronym of imposto sobre o valor acrescentado (“value added tax”)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Iva is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#357469,822△2.7K rec.1 in 81470KYeva103
RU Russia#147354,464137K rec.—#63Ева147
CZ Czechia#6304,926△32K rec.1 in 35305KEva175
SE Sweden#12185,880△44K rec.1 in 55186KEva138
UA Ukraine#126179,125181K rec.—listedЄва41
US United States#392160,9951.1M rec.1 in 2.1K161KEva460
HU Hungary#208151,889△14K rec.1 in 64152KÉva98
BR Brazil—146,658△58 rec.1 in 1.4K161KEva5
FR France—93,830△67 rec.1 in 72394KИвана12
ES Spain#75583,289△23K rec.1 in 60183KEva167
GB United Kingdom#37175,80763K rec.—36Eva199
ID Indonesia#9072,9489.9K rec.—listedEva189

Roughly 470K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 81). 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●

  • Czech246K31%
  • Portuguese181K23%
  • English137K17%
  • Croatian127K16%
  • Hindi27K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Czech246,46931%
Portuguese180,87523%
English137,47817%
Croatian127,35516%
Hindi27,4143%

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◐

Iva is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name195K records spelled Iva25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Spain

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian

    Also written Ivã, Ivá, Ivà, Ïvå, Îvã

  • English given name166K records spelled Iva26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Norwegian

    Also written I-Va, Ivae, Ïvä, Ivä, Ïvå

  • Indonesian given name7.0K records spelled Iva4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Iva, Ïvã

  • a separate given name5.7K records spelled Iva3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada

    Also written Ivã, Īvā

  • Hungarian given name5.2K records spelled Iva4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, United States, Finland, Hungary

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Ivä

  • French given name5.0K records spelled Iva10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Ívã, Ivä, Ïva, Ivã, Ivà

  • Albanian given name1.6K records spelled Iva4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, India

    Also written Ivã, Îvã, Ívã

57 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●

Iva is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Initialism of individual voluntary arrangement.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, osier

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swahili, Kiswahili: 'to ripen'.

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • In Croatian, vrsta vrbe

    as a wordMatasović, Pronk, Ivšić, Brozović Rončević (eds.), Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika, sv. 1-2 (2016)

  • Albero del tasso

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

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●

02505007501K190019502000889 · 1918

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Iva in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880127
1881122
1882134
1883170
1884213
1885229
1886237
1887253
1888302
1889321
1890354
1891341
1892394
1893384
1894424
1895435
1896434
1897454
1898451
1899432
1900483
1901427
1902438
1903398
1904424
1905422
1906400
1907401
1908418
1909401
1910406
1911397
1912550
1913577
1914618
1915878
1916844
1917855
1918889
1919861
1920861
1921785
1922761
1923760
1924763
1925732
1926711
1927700
1928643
1929648
1930605
1931524
1932542
1933533
1934505
1935459
1936446
1937411
1938373
1939395
1940378
1941310
1942334
1943287
1944257
1945252
1946240
1947267
1948248
1949234
1950210
1951213
1952206
1953203
1954206
1955193
1956198
1957180
1958148
1959143
1960136
1961147
1962113
1963101
196496
196587
1966102
196775
196865
196957
197075
197174
197260
197356
197456
197561
197645
197756
197846
197947
198045
198133
198239
198339
198424
198531
198637
198739
198844
198937
199035
199143
199227
199331
199425
199524
199630
199730
199837
199926
200037
200137
200232
200333
200442
200554
200647
200743
200852
200972
201060
201159
201260
201379
201495
2015101
2016126
2017117
2018109
2019104
2020104
2021125
2022114
202398
202487
2025117

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Iva Toguri, b. 1916Elaine May, b. 1932Iva Zanicchi, b. 1940Iva Bittová, b. 1958Iva Prandzheva, b. 1972Iva Majoli, b. 1977Iva Kubelková, b. 1977Iva Landeka, b. 1989Iva Radoš, b. 1995Iva Jovic, b. 2007
  • Iva Togurib. 1916USWorld War II propaganda announcer "Orphan Ann", and best-known "Tokyo Rose" announcer
  • Elaine Mayb. 1932USnot in their usual nameAmerican screenwriter, film director, actress, and comedian (b. 1932)
  • Iva Zanicchib. 1940ITItalian singer and politician
  • Iva Bittováb. 1958CZCzech musician, and actor
  • Iva Prandzhevab. 1972BGBulgarian athlete
  • Iva Majolib. 1977HRCroatian tennis player
  • Iva Kubelkováb. 1977CZCzech actress, model and presenter
  • Iva Landekab. 1989HRCroatian footballer
  • Iva Radošb. 1995HRCroatian sportsperson
  • Iva Jovicb. 2007USUS American tennis player

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 87 sources across 48 countries.

Official registers attesting Iva
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—52K#88
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—26K#98
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202119K—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202119K#41
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—11K#2,040
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20209.3K#2,539
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20228.9K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—7.8K#1,863
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—2.1K#243
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20252K#137
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.1K#1,863
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—684#2,061

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 663 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Iva?
We estimate roughly 1.7 million people bear Iva (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
In which country does Iva have the most bearers?
We estimate about 470 thousand people bear Iva in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled yeva.
Where is Iva most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Iva is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 35 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is Iva compared with other names?
In Poland, Iva is the 357th most common given name of 66,904 given names recorded there.
Is Iva a male or female name?
Iva 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 Iva mean?
Recorded meaning: acronym of imposto sobre o valor acrescentado (“value added tax”)
Query this name via API
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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, “Iva” — the 357th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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