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Oiva

Boys' name

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Oiva has been given to 104 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1916, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Oiva, 1924

1 in 397,000

Oiva over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Oiva: meaning, origin, and history

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Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Oiva means

Oiva means “excellent”, associated with oiva.

Origin, language, and formation

Oiva is used in Finnish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Oiva is pronounced /ˈoi̯ʋɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 104 boys were recorded with the name Oiva between 1913 and 1924. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1916; its best national rank was #1,822 in 1916.

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.

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How common is Oiva?

Oiva had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1924, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1924
1 in 397,000
6 of 2,381,562 births
Among boys only
1 in 189,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1924
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
275,130 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Oiva sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1924 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 275,130 children born in 1924 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oiva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Oivas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Oiva was born before 1918 — so the typical Oiva is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
69.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
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1910s — 69.2% of all recorded uses (72).

Is Oiva 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1916 (17)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,822
1916

Spellings of Oiva

Oiva is not the most common spelling — Ivan is, with 55.9% against Oiva's 0.04%.

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 Oiva is used

Across 1910–2025, Oiva was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 266,779 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Oiva has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Oiva by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,822
1916
Peak year
1916
17 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
1924
All-time count
104
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Oiva

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

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Sibling names for Oiva

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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