Iva

Where Iva comes from

The dictionaries list Iva as a given name — a female given name of Slavic origin, recorded in the United States since 1900 — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #128 among girls — 127 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1894
    Peak, #111
    424 babies named Iva — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1940
    Iva Zanicchi born
    Italian singer and politician
  4. 1950
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #576.
  5. 1977
    Iva Majoli born
    Croatian tennis player
In the dictionary
  • A female given name of Slavic origin, recorded in the United States since 1900.
Namesakes
  • Iva Zanicchi · Italian singer and politician, born 1940
  • Iva Majoli · Croatian tennis player, born 1977
  • Iva Toguri D'Aquino · World War II propaganda announcer "Orphan Ann", and best-known "Tokyo Rose" announcer, 1916–2006
  • Iva Jovic · US American tennis player, born 2007
  • Iva Bittová · Czech musician, and actor, born 1958

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.