Iveta

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ивета in RU Russia, TR Türkiye, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more, Івета in UA Ukraine and Ivet in LA Laos.

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●

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

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

• French given name904 records spelled Iveta3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Latvia, United States

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Ivéta

• Armenian given name238 records spelled Iveta2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Armenia, Canada

  Also written Իվետա

41 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●

Iveta is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Iveta Radičováb. 1956SKSlovak politician and sociologist, former prime minister
• Iveta Šrankováb. 1963SKSlovak field hockey player
• Iveta Grigule-Pēterseb. 1964LVLatvian politician
• Iveta Bartošováb. 1966CZCzech singer (1966–2014)
• Iveta Apkalnab. 1976LVLatvian organist
• Iveta Grófováb. 1980SKSlovak film director, screenwriter and film producer
• Iveta Benešováb. 1983CZCzech tennis player
• Iveta Lutovskáb. 1983CZCzech model, presenter and Czech Miss titleholder
• Iveta Mukuchyanb. 1986AMArmenian singer and actress
• Iveta Vacenovskáb. 1986CZCzech Olympic athlete and table 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 115 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Iveta?

We estimate roughly 88 thousand people bear Iveta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Iveta have the most bearers?

We estimate about 73 thousand people bear Iveta in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled iveta.

Where is Iveta most common?

Iveta is densest in the Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 147 people carrying it.

How common is Iveta compared with other names?

In the Czechia, Iveta is the 70th most common given name of 28,899 given names recorded there.

Is Iveta a male or female name?

Iveta 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 Iveta mean?

Recorded meaning: First recorded as a given name of Latvians in early 20th century. From French Yvette.