Līva
given name · Latin script
Meaning: apdzīvota vieta 16. gs., tagadājās Liepājas pilsētas teritorijā starp Liepājas ezeru un jūru
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Līva is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 689(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 958
- NONorway1 in 7.5K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- 1 in 689 (inferred from the name graph)
6,124 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Liva in LV Latvia, NL Netherlands.
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)
apdzīvota vieta 16. gs., tagadājās Liepājas pilsētas teritorijā starp Liepājas ezeru un jūru
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Līva 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | 6,124 | 1 in 958 | 6.1K | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 2,730 | 1 in 689 | 2.7K | Liva | 23 |
| NL Netherlands | 922 | 1 in 19K | 913 | Liva | 8 |
| NO Norway | 730 | 1 in 7.5K | 2.6K | — | 11 |
| SE Sweden | 277 | 1 in 37K | 277 | — | 4 |
6,124 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Līva 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 Latvian, apdzīvota vieta Igaunijā, Sāremā apriņķī, Muhu salas vidienē
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Tukla govs ar platu muguru, kas ejot viļņojas
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Līva Kreituseb. 1987LVLatvian politician
- Līva Rubezeb. 1991Latvian athletics competitor (born 1991)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 2.7K | #201 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 2.7K | — |
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 Līva mean?
- Recorded meaning: apdzīvota vieta 16. gs., tagadājās Liepājas pilsētas teritorijā starp Liepājas ezeru un jūru
- Is Līva a male or female name?
- Līva 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 are other forms of the name Līva?
- In the etymology graph, Līvija is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Līva have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 6.1 thousand people named Līva, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Līva most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Līva is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 689 people — even though Denmark holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Līva?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 6,124 people named Līva, about 1 in 958 residents.
What do you want to know about Līva?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C4%ABvaThe 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, “Līva”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.