Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Aiva isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2002. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aiva through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 767
- 0 boys · 767 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 67 babies
- 2025
- 12
- #8,382 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −49%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 12 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 8,382 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 48.7% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 67 in 2014. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 654 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Aiva’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Aiva has a diminutive in AIVITA. In Latvian usage, Aiva shares a linguistic root with the Estonian form AIVE. In Latvian usage, Aiva has a masculine form in AIVIS.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.