Iva

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: Initialism of individual voluntary arrangement

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

/ˈivə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Iva is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Sweden it is the 8th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 225(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 35as Eva
  • SESweden1 in 55as Eva

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Iva 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.

Poland (measured from records)

469,822 named Ewa, 2026

#578 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
527 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 225 (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

EvaLatin(measured from records)
ЕваCyrillic(measured from records)
이바Hangul(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Eva in US United States, PL Poland, CZ Czechia and 2 more and Éva in HU Hungary.

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)

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

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

How Iva is read(measured from records)

Iva is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English44%

    Initialism of individual voluntary arrangement.

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

  • Croatian16%

    osier

    as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    vrsta vrbe

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

  • Hindi9.9%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Iva in Hindi.

  • Portuguese9.3%

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

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

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Iva 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.

Where Iva is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#595469,822as Ewa1 in 81470KEva102
CZ Czechia#11304,926as Eva1 in 35305KEva179
SE Sweden#8185,880as Eva1 in 55186KEva165
US United States#388161,325as Eva1 in 2.1K161KEva527
HU Hungary#37151,889as Éva1 in 64152KÉva104
HR Croatia#2418,7621 in 22519KIva132
SI Slovenia#459,549as Eva1 in 2209.6KEva79

469,822 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026, counting the spelling ewa. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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 name25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Portugal

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian

    Also written Ivã, Ivá, Ivà, Ïvä, Ivä

  • English given name26 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Norwegian

    Also written I-Va, Ivae, Ivä, Ivã, Îvâ

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Iva, Ïvã

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Īvā, Ivã

  • Hungarian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, India, Finland

    Languages: Hungarian, Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Ivä

  • French given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Ívã, Ivä, Ivà, Ïva, Îvä

  • Albanian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States

    Also written Îvã, Ívã, Ivã

58 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(measured from records)

Iva is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swahili, Kiswahili: 'to ripen'.

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Iva,

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 89 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
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20209.3K#2,539
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—2.1K#243
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20252K#137
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—488#2,831
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020328—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020255#2,539
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025117—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—89#1,673

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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Iva come from?
acronym of imposto sobre o valor acrescentado (“value added tax”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Iva have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 470 thousand people named Ewa, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Iva most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Iva is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 225 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How do you pronounce Iva?
A machine transcription gives /ˈivə/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Iva mean?
In English, Initialism of individual voluntary arrangement.
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 are other forms of the name Iva?
In the etymology graph, Janet, Eva and Jo are forms of the same name in other languages; Ivka is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Ivana.
How common is the name Iva?
In Croatia, the national register counted 18,762 people named Iva in 2021, about 1 in 225 residents.
How common is Iva compared with other names?
In Poland, Iva is the 595th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.

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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, “Iva” — the 595th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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