Chivu
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kʲ̩ivu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chivu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Clipping of Paraschiv.
- RORomania≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 169K
- ITItaly≈1 in 239K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Clipping of Paraschiv.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chivu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #218 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Chivu | 70 |
| ES Spain | — | 296 | 1 in 169K | 296 | Chivu | 31 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 239K | — | Chivu | 16 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Chivu | 3 |
| US United States | — | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 6.7M | listed | Chivu | 50 |
| SE Sweden | — | 12 | 1 in 850K | 12 | Chivu | 6 |
| DK Denmark | — | 11 | 1 in 534K | 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Virgil Chivub. 1921RORomanian painter
- Gheorghe Chivub. 1947RORomanian academic
- Adrian Chivub. 1975RORomanian writer
- Marius Chivub. 1978RORomanian writer
- Cristian Chivub. 1980RORomanian association football player
- Răzvan-Daniel ChivuROresearcher
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 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 296 | #12,200 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 296 | #12,161 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12 | #35,669 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 11 | #37,235 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Chivu mean, and where does it come from?
- Clipping of Paraschiv. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Chivu?
- A machine transcription gives /kʲ̩ivu/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- In which country does Chivu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Chivu in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chivu.
- How common is the name Chivu?
- In Spain, the national register counted 296 people named Chivu, about 1 in 169 thousand residents.
- How common is Chivu compared with other names?
- In Romania, Chivu is the 218th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chivu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chivuThe 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, “Chivu” — the 218th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.