Liva
given name · Latin script
Meaning: definite plural of liv
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/livaː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Liva is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 689(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 958
- NONorway1 in 7.5K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- 1 in 689 (inferred from the name graph)
6,124 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
definite plural of liv
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Liva 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | 6,124 | 1 in 958 | 6.1K | Liva | 64 |
| LV Latvia | 2,730 | 1 in 689 | 2.7K | Liva | 44 |
| NL Netherlands | 922 | 1 in 19K | 913 | Liva | 4 |
| NO Norway | 730 | 1 in 7.5K | 2.6K | Liva | 19 |
| SE Sweden | 277 | 1 in 37K | 277 | Liva | 6 |
| GP Guadeloupe | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 5 | — | — |
6,124 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe). 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)
Liva is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In wyy, formative in several words denoting lightning
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Swedish, to liven (something) up, to enliven (something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovak, a diminutive of the female given name Lívia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nlg, centipede
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In fj, lightning
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Liva Järnefeltb. 1876SESwedish mezzo-soprano opera singer
- Liva Weelb. 1897DKactress (1897-1952)
- Liva Saryeeb. 1988LRLiberian athlete
- Liva Zunkerb. 1989DEGerman association football player
- Liva Isakson Lundinb. 1990SESwedish artist
- Liva Stegeb. 2002DEGerman actress
- Liva Polkab. 2003LVLatvian association football player
- Liva Prescott ThomsenDanish voice actor
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 68 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 15 | #54,917 |
Reference works 8
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Liva?
- A machine transcription gives /livaː/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Liva mean, and where does it come from?
- definite plural of liv Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Liva have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 6.1 thousand people named Liva, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled liva.
- Where is Liva most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Liva is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 689 people — even though Denmark holds more of our records for it.
- Is Liva a male or female name?
- Liva is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Liva?
- In the etymology graph, Liv and Hlíf are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Liva?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 6,124 people named Liva, about 1 in 958 residents.
What do you want to know about Liva?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/livaThe 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, “Liva”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.