Næve
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a fist (clenched hand)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Næve is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 42K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 51Kfew recordsas Nave
- ILIsrael≈1 in 55Kfew recordsas Nave
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 Næve itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 306 (measured from records)
- 1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
4,946 named Nave, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nave in US United States, PH Philippines, IT Italy and 5 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 fist (clenched hand)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Næve 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4,946as Nave | 1 in 67K | 4.9K | Nave | 306 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Nave | 2 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 57K | listed | Nave | 24 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Nave | 24 |
| FR France | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 99 | — | 3 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Nave | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 130 | 1 in 42K | 130 | Nave | 8 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Nave | 3 |
| AX Åland Islands | #631 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Nave | 2 |
4,946 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Næve 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 English, Obsolete form of naeve.
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 130 | #12,047 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Næve mean, and where does it come from?
- a fist (clenched hand) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Næve have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Nave, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Næve most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Næve is densest in Norway — about 1 in 42 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Næve?
- In Norway, the national register counted 130 people named Næve, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
- How common is Næve compared with other names?
- In Åland Islands, Næve is the 631st most common surname of 1,503 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%A6veThe 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, “Næve” — the 631st most common surname in Åland Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.