Oiva
given name · Latin script
Meaning: fine, splendid
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɔjvə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oiva is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 802(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 65K
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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 802 (inferred from the name graph)
6,949 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ойва in RU Russia.
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)
fine, splendid
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oiva 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 | 6,949 | 1 in 802 | 16K | Oiva | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 158 | 1 in 65K | 158 | — | — |
| RU Russia | — | — | — | Ойва | 14 |
| US United States | — | — | 6 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | — | 4 | — | — |
6,949 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Oiva is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In urj-fin-pro, fine, splendid, excellent
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)
- O. J. Tuuliob. 1878FInot in their usual nameFinnish linguist and professor
- Oiva Kalliob. 1884FIFinnish architect (1884-1964)
- Oiva Tuominenb. 1908FIFinnish World War II flying ace (1908–1976)
- Oiva Paloheimob. 1910FIFinnish author and poet, lyricist (1910-1973)
- Oiva Lommib. 1922FIFinnish rower (1922-2000)
- Oiva Virtanenb. 1929FIFinnish basketball player
- Oiva Toikkab. 1931FIFinnish glass designer and ceramist (1931-2019)
- Oiva Arvolab. 1935FIFinnish writer and teacher
- Martti Ahtisaarib. 1937FInot in their usual namePresident of Finland from 1994 to 2000
- Marko Ahtisaarib. 1969FInot in their usual nameFinnish technology entrepreneur and musician
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 16K | #138 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 6.9K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 195 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 190 | #1,830 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 190 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 182 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 175 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 169 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 166 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 160 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 159 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 158 | #6,210 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Oiva mean, and where does it come from?
- fine, splendid Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Oiva?
- A machine transcription gives /ɔjvə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Oiva a male or female name?
- Oiva is a male 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.
- In which country does Oiva have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 6.9 thousand people named Oiva, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oiva.
- Where is Oiva most common?
- Oiva is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 802 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Oiva?
- In Finland, the national register counted 6,949 people named Oiva, about 1 in 802 residents.
What do you want to know about Oiva?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oivaThe 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, “Oiva”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.