Iva

Where Iva comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Iva.

  • Vowel-ended
Iva through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #128 among girls, with 127 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1894
    Peak, #111
    424 babies named Iva, its best rank.
  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.