Given name & surname · also Latin
Ieva
“bird cherry”
Ieva is a feminine given name from Latin, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Latvian and Lithuanian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Ieva comes from Latin, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ieva through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 53
- 0 boys · 53 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 428 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.
Ieva’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Ieva has a conventional equivalent in the German form Eva. In Latvian usage, Ieva has a conventional equivalent in the English form Eve.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- EvaGerman
- EveEnglish
- Yevaequivalent
- Eviequivalent
- Evitaequivalent
- Eevaequivalent
- Ewaequivalent
- Évaequivalent
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People named Ieva
- Ieva SimonaitytėLithuanian writer (1897-1978)
- Ieva LagūnaLatvian model (born 1990)
- Ieva KubliņaLatvian basketball player (born 1982)
- Ieva NarkutėLithuanian singerborn 1987
- Ieva JanuškevičiūtėLithuanian alpine skierborn 1994
- Ieva AdomavičiūtėLithuanian rowerborn 1994
- Ieva IlvesaLatvian cybersecurity specialist and civil servant (born 1977)
- Ieva TāreLatvian basketball player (born 1974)
- Ieva BidermaneLatvian footballerborn 1984
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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