Sveva
given name · Italian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sveva is a given name, most frequently recorded in France. It appears chiefly in Italian and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: feminine singular of svevo.
- NLNetherlands1 in 691K◐
- FIFinland1 in 796K
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈50 ●
- Sources
- 38 ●
- 1 in 691K ◐
across 6 countries
222 records
Reference-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin●
feminine singular of svevo
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | 258 | 202 rec. | — | — | Sveva | 38 |
| NL Netherlands | 25△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 691K | 25 | — | 2 |
| IT Italy | 10 | 8 rec. | — | 471 | Sveva | 7 |
| SE Sweden | 8 | — | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 7 | — | 1 in 796K | 15 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 5 | — | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 3 | — | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | — | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 1 rec. | — | 58 | — | 2 |
| AT Austria | — | — | — | 5 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 1 rec. | — | 5 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Italian69840%
- French27416%
- English19011%
- German845%
- Portuguese493%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Italian | 698 | 40% |
| French | 274 | 16% |
| English | 190 | 11% |
| German | 84 | 5% |
| Portuguese | 49 | 3% |
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●
Sveva 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.
Proveniente dalla Svevia
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.
Notable people with this name●
- Sveva del Balzob. 1305- Aft 1332
- Sveva Orsinib. 1360(1360-1404)
- Seraphina Sforzab. 1434ITnot in their usual nameItalian beatified nun
- Sveva Caetanib. 1917CACanadian painter (1917-1994)
- Sveva Avvedutob. 1953ITItalian sociologist (1951-)
- Sveva Savellib. 1975ITItalian archaeologist (1975-)
- Sveva Bollinib. 1980ITresearcher
- Sveva Alvitib. 1984ITItalian and French actress
- Sveva Gerevinib. 1996ITItalian heptathlete
- Sveva Romana CandellettaItalian actress
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 24 sources across 14 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 · 35 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sveva?
- We estimate roughly 50 people bear Sveva (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sveva have the most bearers?
- Sveva is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled sveva.
- Where is Sveva most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sveva is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 691 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- Is Sveva a male or female name?
- Sveva 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 Sveva mean?
- Recorded meaning: feminine singular of svevo
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sveva”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.