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Ieva

Girls' name

Bird cherry

Ieva has been given to 53 babies in the U.S. since 1999. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2008, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Ieva, 2014

1 in 618,000

Ieva over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ieva: meaning, origin, and history

Bird cherry

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ieva means

Ieva means “bird cherry”, associated with ieva.

Origin, language, and formation

Ieva is used in Latvian and Lithuanian.

Ieva comes through Latin Eva.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eve.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Lithuanian, Ieva is pronounced [jiɛˈʋɐ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 53 girls were recorded with the name Ieva between 1999 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2008; its best national rank was #9,157 in 2008.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ieva?

Ieva had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 618,000
6 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 298,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
428,229 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ieva sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 428,229 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ieva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ievas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ieva was born before 2006 — so the typical Ieva is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
79.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
53
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 79.2% of all recorded uses (42).

Is Ieva rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2008 (13)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
52.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,157
2008

Spellings of Ieva

Ieva is not the most common spelling — Ava is, with 15.3% against Ieva's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ieva is used

Across 1910–2025, Ieva was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 530,001 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ieva has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ieva around the world

Where Ieva ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    2016–2016
    #798
    in 2016
  • Northern Ireland
    2008–2008
    #439
    in 2008
  • Ireland
    2006–2021
    #883
    in 2021
  • France
    1995–2022
    #6,921
    in 2022
  • Norway
    1880–2019
    #496
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1950–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ieva by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,157
2008
Peak year
2008
13 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
53
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ieva

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

SevaNaevaJeevaZevaZeevaYevaVievaTevaBevaAevaRhevaStevaMevaEevaNeevaLoevaShevaKievaLevaNievaHeevaShreevaSheevaMileva

Sibling names for Ieva

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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