Eiva

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Name of unknown origin and meaning. Theories include

1) Female form of Eivar [1]

2) Variant form of Eivor (see Eyvǫr) [1]

3) Creative spelling of Ava (English pronunciation) [1]

Related Names

Eiva
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Eyva
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Icelandic Swedish

For male forms see Eive

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Eivuson Iceland

Female

Eivudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Eiva
Genitive: Eivan
Partitive: Eivaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Eiva
Accusative: Eivu
Dative: Eivu
Genitive: Eivu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Eiva
Genitive: Eivas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Eiva
Genitive: Eivas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 10 people were named Eiva (percentage of first or only given name: 100 %) [4]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[5]
14 20 14 20 0 0
Denmark Denmark[6]
8
n.a.
8
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
2
n.a.
2 0 0
Norway Norway[8]
17
n.a.
17
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Eiva.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Judith Ahrholdt: Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de (2004-2024).
  2. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  3. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/