Liva

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

1) Younger form of Lífa (see Líf) ^[1]

2) Variant form of Livia ^[2]

Related Names

Liva	♀
Livan	♀
Live	♀
Livø	♀
Liivu	♀

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1901 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[3]		2413	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[4]		196	271	0	0
Sweden[5]		87	113	0	0
Finland[6]		n.a.	10	n.a	4
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[5][3][4][6]:

Sources: ^{[5] [3] [4] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi