Zivs
given name · Latin script
Meaning: fish (animal that lives in water, moving with fins and breathing with gills)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zivs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia≈1 in 159K(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 159K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Živs in LV Latvia.
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)
fish (animal that lives in water, moving with fins and breathing with gills)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zivs 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 | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 159K | 9 | Živs | 5 |
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). 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)
Zivs is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, hordaiņu tipa mugurkaulnieku apakštipa nodalījums ("Pisces"), dzīvnieks, kas dzīvo ūdenī, elpo ar žaunām un kam ir abpusēji saplacināts, parasti zvīņām, klāts, ķermenis, spuras
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Zvejniecības likuma izpratnē — arī vēži un citi ūdens bezmugurkaulnieki, kā arī nēģi
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In ltg, fish
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 9 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 9 | #4,761 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zivs mean, and where does it come from?
- fish (animal that lives in water, moving with fins and breathing with gills) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Zivs a male or female name?
- Zivs 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.
- In which country does Zivs have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 people named Zivs in Latvia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled živs.
- How common is the name Zivs?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 people in Latvia have Zivs as their first surname, about 1 in 159 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zivsThe 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, “Zivs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.