Ilva

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Variant form of Ylva [1]

2) Derived from the Latin name of the Italian island 'Elba' (the place name takes its name from the Ligurian people 'Ilvates/Ilates' of unknown origin and meaning') [1] [2]

3) Bulgarian variant form of Ila [1]

Related Names

Ilva
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Milva

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ilva
Genitive: Ilvas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ilva
Genitive: Ilvan
Partitive: Ilvaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ilva
Genitive: Ilvas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ilva
Genitive: Ilvas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 83 people were named Ilva (percentage of first or only given name: 87 %) [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]
34 70 34 70 0 0
Denmark Denmark[6]
6
n.a.
6
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[3]
n.a.
8
n.a.
8 0 0
Iceland Iceland[7]
2 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
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 Ilva.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 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. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/