Kiva
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A ceremonial underground chamber in a Pueblo village
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kˈiːvɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kiva is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 46Kas Кива(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 107Kas Кива
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 159Kas Кива
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kiva itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 named Кива, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ukraine, est., as Кива
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Кива in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A ceremonial underground chamber in a Pueblo village.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kiva counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Кива | 116 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Кива | 36 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 159K | 52 | Кива | 26 |
| PL Poland | 76as Kyva | 1 in 504K | 39 | — | 2 |
| BY Belarus | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Кива | 11 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kiva is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a-infinitive form of kive
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, nice, pleasant
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, fun, nice
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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(measured from records)
- Sarah Cowanb. 1980USnot in their usual nameacademic sociologist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kiva mean, and where does it come from?
- A ceremonial underground chamber in a Pueblo village. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kiva?
- A machine transcription gives /kˈiːvɐ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Kiva a male or female name?
- Kiva 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.
- In which country does Kiva have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Кива in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kiva?
- In Poland, the national register counted 76 people named Kyva in 2026, about 1 in 504 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kiva?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kivaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Kiva”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.