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 [ 2 syll. i-va, iv-a ] The girl name Iva is pronounced IYVah KEY. 1: Iva has its origins in the African-Bini language. It is used largely in Czech and Slavic. The meaning of Iva is 'to promise, a proverb given as a hint in conversation'. 2: Iva is of African-Swahili origin. Here, it means ripened. Iva is a short form of the Czech, Russian, Slavic, and Italian Ivana in the Czech and Slavic languages. Iva is also a variant form of the English Jane in the Slavic language. Iva is also a variant form of the English Ivy. Iva is also a variant form of the English, French, and German Yvonne in the Italian language. Iva is unusual as a baby girl name. Its usage peaked in 1901 with 0.168% of baby girls being named Iva. It had a ranking of #120 then. The baby name has experienced a marked fall in frequency since then, and is currently used on a very modest scale. Among the family of girl names directly related to Iva, the English Ivy was the most widely used in 2008. Baby names that sound like Iva include the Czech, Dutch, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Scandinavian, Slavic, Spanish, Hungarian, Indian, and Polish Eva, the Hungarian Éva, the English Ibbie, the name Ibby, the Irish Aoife, the English Eba, the Hawaiian Eepa, the Finnish Eevi, the German and Hungarian Evi, the English Ib, the Finnish Eeva, the English and French Eve, and the French Ève. KEY: English pronunciation for Iva: IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; V as in "vee (V.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"   |
