Aiva
Aiva was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,380 among girls’ names; 767 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aiva by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aiva?
#8,380 among girls’ names, 2025
Aiva fell from #3,130 in 2015 to #8,380 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 29.7 to 7.5 per million.
67 babies in 2014, the peak
Aiva peaked in 2014, when 67 girls were given it, #2,614 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,380 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,575 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,249 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 16 | #6,991 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,415 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,169 | 14.8 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,164 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,017 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,699 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,414 | 26.0 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 53 | #3,130 | 29.7 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,614 | 37.5 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,936 | 32.5 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,212 | 29.0 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,358 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,625 | 24.2 |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,618 | 24.0 |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,054 | 29.6 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,380 | 17.7 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,238 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,267 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,223 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,889 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,134 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aiva a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aiva has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aiva: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aiva, and how old are they?
An estimated 761 Americans named Aiva and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 10 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 654 people named Aiva (646 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 664 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Aiva?
Aiva is a less common spelling of Ayva: SSA has recorded 767 Aiva and 3,823 Ayva since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 365,473 babies since 1880, Aiva is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 8,348 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aiva
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aiva and names like it
- Compare Aiva and AyvaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAiva peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aiva since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Aiva.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aiva alive today were born 2013-2025.
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