Kiva

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kiva: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

2registrars recorded it
14times a registrar ranked it
52years from first to last
#428highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2006–2025

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2006	#5061
2011	#5785
2014	#5691
2017	#5765
2019	#5591
2020	#5493
2021	#4634
2023	#4709
2025	#5927

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 5 of the 47 years from 1974 to 2020.

In 2020: #834 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #5493 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1974–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1974
First recorded at #428 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1974 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1974–2020
Highest recorded position: #428 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1974 (recorded 1974–2020).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #5927 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Kiva appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 9 ranked years and 29 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1974.

Kiva across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kiva's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#428 (1974)	#428 (1974)	#834 (2020)	5 of 47	16 (1974–2020)	4 (1974)
England and Wales · Girls	#5061 (2006)	#4634 (2021)	#5927 (2025)	9 of 20	29 (2006–2025)	4 (2021)

Kiva by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kiva in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	3	1 of 10	3
2010s	12	4 of 10	3
2020s	14	4 of 10	4

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Kiva appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1974 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #428 in Republic of Ireland in 1974.

Kiva's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	female	#5927	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#606	3	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#533	3	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#428	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Kiva is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Kiva, between 1974 and 2025, in 13 of those 52 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1974–2020	5	#428 in 1974
England and Wales	2006–2025	9	#4634 in 2021

Its high point came 47 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1974) than in England and Wales (2021).

No registrar recorded it for 19 years after 1981; it appears again in 2001.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

Kiva was ranked #428 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1974. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Abigail#428
Ada#428
Aiveen#428
Anthea#428
Aedin#490
Alexis#490
Anastatia#490
Angeline#490

Kiva and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,576 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kiva without appearing here.

Kiva moved ahead of

Donna
In 2022 they stood at #4634 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4709 and #5687.
Kristin
In 2022 they stood at #5493 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4709 and #5687.
Tyler
In 2020 they stood at #5591 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #5581.

What is known about Kiva

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 2 official registrars, 1974–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1974 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #428 in Republic of Ireland in 1974. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Kiva

Kiva at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kiva across 2 official records

Kiva by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kiva appears in

Popularity data

Where Kiva is officially recorded

Names published alongside Kiva

Kiva and the names beside it

Kiva moved ahead of

What is known about Kiva

Kiva at a glance

Kiva across 2 official records

Kiva by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kiva appears in

Names published alongside Kiva

Kiva and the names beside it

Kiva moved ahead of