Kaiva
given name · Latin script
Meaning: gull, seagull; alternative form of kaija
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kəɪvə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kaiva is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 16K(measured from records)
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.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
117 people
Reference-verified
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
gull, seagull; alternative form of kaija
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaiva 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | 117 | 1 in 16K | 117 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | — | — | Kaiva | 18 |
| IN India | — | — | 5 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | 5 | — | 2 |
| IS Iceland | — | — | 1 | — | — |
117 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Kaiva 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 Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In vot, to dig
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)
- Hans Kaivab. 1932EEEstonian boxer (1932-1999)
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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 117 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 117 | #1,114 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 5 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2013 | 1 | — |
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 Kaiva mean, and where does it come from?
- gull, seagull; alternative form of kaija Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kaiva?
- A machine transcription gives /kəɪvə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Kaiva a male or female name?
- Kaiva is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Kaiva have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 117 people named Kaiva, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kaiva most common?
- Kaiva is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kaiva?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 117 people named Kaiva, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kaiva?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaivaThe 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, “Kaiva”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.