Liiva
surname · Latin script
Meaning: genitive singular of liiv
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Liiva is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 70K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1.3M
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
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 Liiva 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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)
80 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Лиива in RU Russia and Лийва in KZ Kazakhstan.
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)genitive singular of liiv
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)Liiva 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 80 | 1 in 70K | 80 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | — |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 10M | 1 | Лийва | 8 |
| RU Russia | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 132M | — | Лиива | 7 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
80 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Liiva is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In krl, slime
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, sand
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In se, vest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In men, to stay long, to remain all day
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
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)- Lembit Liivab. 1929EEEstonian jurist (1929-2017)
- Kalju Liivab. 1941EEEstonian amateur wrestler (born 1941)
- Silvi Liivab. 1941EEEstonian printmaker (1941-2023)
- Johan Liivab. 1970SESwedish metal vocalist of Estonian origin (born 1970)
- Kristi Liivab. 1971EEEstonian communications manager (born 1971)
- Riho Liivab. 1975EEEstonian chess player (born 1975)
- Henn LiivaEEEstonian sound designer (fl. 1980-)
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 80 | #15,243 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8 | #43,816 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #207,006 |
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 Liiva mean, and where does it come from?
- genitive singular of liiv Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Liiva have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 80 people named Liiva, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Liiva most common?
- Liiva is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 70 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Liiva?
- In Finland, the national register counted 80 people named Liiva, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Liiva?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/liivaThe 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, “Liiva”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.