Meaning not yet researched.
Aiva: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,616 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,616 in 2014; #8,382 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aiva in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,382 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #2,616.
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Aiva: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,616 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 67 (2014).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Aiva, making it the 8,382nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,198 places from #9,580 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 10 girls named Aiva in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,616, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 67. For comparison, it was #3,130 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aiva in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2002 with 8 babies. In all, 767 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 436 babies named Aiva.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 236 US girls were named Aiva; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 46. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ava (344,441 babies since 1880), Avah (7,046 babies since 1880), Ayva (3,823 babies since 1880) and Ahuva (1,922 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Aiva in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,382 | — | — |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,580 | — | — |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,252 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #6,996 | — | — |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,420 | — | — |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,172 | — | — |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,166 | — | — |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,021 | — | — |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,700 | — | — |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,414 | — | — |
| 2015 | 53 | #3,130 | — | — |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,616 | — | — |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,937 | — | — |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,213 | — | — |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,359 | — | — |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,626 | — | — |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,619 | — | — |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,055 | — | — |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,381 | — | — |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,239 | — | — |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,272 | — | — |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,228 | — | — |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,894 | — | — |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,140 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).