girls:
38.2k births since 1880
#697 (88th percentile)
boys:
564 births since 1883
#4022 (12th percentile)
overall:
38.7k births since 1880
#1265 (84th percentile)
The name Iva is the #1,265 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 38,747 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 83.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #697 (87.8% percentile) for all time with 38,183 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,022 (12.2% percentile) for all time with 564 births since 1883.
Iva has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1883 for boys).
The name Iva has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Iva reached its peak popularity in 1896, achieving the 67.6% percentile (ranked #107) with 1,722 births per million. The name was most common in 1897, with 1,829 births per million (ranked 67.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2003, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Iva ranks #856 for girls (9.6% percentile) with 55 births per million, which is 3.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Iva reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #518) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1893, with 66 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1985.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Iva".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Eva. View all variations of Eva.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Iva", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 10 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Eva" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Eva..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Iva. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.9% confident that Iva is pronounced as AI-vuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EE-vuh, at 43.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AY1 V AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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