Koliva
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A dish made of sweetened boiled wheat, optionally mixed with nuts and spices, and used in Eastern Orthodox rituals to commemorate the dead or at slava
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Koliva is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.
- GRGreece≈1 in 949Kas Κολυβά(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 13Mas Kolyva
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 Koliva 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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 949K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11 named Κολυβά, est.
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
Greece, est., as Κολυβά
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kolyva in GR Greece.
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)
(Rize) boiled maize
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Koliva is read(measured from records)
Koliva is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Spanish38%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Koliva in Spanish.
- English20%
A dish made of sweetened boiled wheat, optionally mixed with nuts and spices, and used in Eastern Orthodox rituals to commemorate the dead or at slava.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Turkish9.7%
(Rize) boiled maize
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Greek7.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Koliva in Greek.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Koliva 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.
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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Koliva come from?
- (Rize) boiled maize Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Koliva mean?
- In English, A dish made of sweetened boiled wheat, optionally mixed with nuts and spices, and used in Eastern Orthodox rituals to commemorate the dead or at slava.
- What are other forms of the name Koliva?
- In the etymology graph, Kollyva is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Koliva have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 people named Κολυβά in Greece, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Koliva?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Kolyva in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.
What do you want to know about Koliva?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kolivaThe 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, “Koliva”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.