Given name & surname · also Italian
Uva
“grapes”
Uva is a surname from Italian, ultimately from Portuguese. It is used in English and Italian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Uva comes from Italian, and ultimately from Portuguese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1909. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Uva through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 176
- 0 boys · 176 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 16 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 1936. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 16 in 1917. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 517 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.
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