Given name & surname
Sivi
Sivi is a feminine given name from Swedish. It is used in Finnish.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Sivi developed from Siv.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1967. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sivi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 47
- 0 boys · 47 girls
- Most popular year
- 1967
- 27 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 7 in 1970. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 27 in 1967.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sivi’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Sivi developed from the Swedish form Siv.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sivi
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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