Given name & surname · also Ukrainian
Kava
“jackdaw”
Kava is a surname from Ukrainian, ultimately from Proto-Slavic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kava goes back to Proto-Slavic *kavъka, meaning “jackdaw.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Kava comes from Ukrainian, and ultimately from Proto-Slavic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
A transliteration of Ukrainian Кава, from Polish Kawa, from Proto-Slavic *kavъka (“jackdaw”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1969. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kava through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15
- 0 boys · 15 girls
- Most popular year
- 1969
- 5 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 5 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 106 as a first name in 2020; 506 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kava’s family of names
In English usage, Kava as a surname was borrowed from the Polish form KAWA.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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