Entry № 4437 · Latvian origin

Ieva Ieva — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EE-eh-vah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latvian
Meaning
"Life (Baltic form of Eve)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Latvian)

A name that means "life (baltic form of eve)".

Ieva is the Latvian and Lithuanian form of Eve — from the Hebrew Ḥawwāh (life). Ieva Lešinska — Latvian literary translator. Ieva Vaicekauskaitė — Lithuanian classical pianist. Princess Ieva — modern Baltic royal naming.

Life (Baltic Eve).

The name in its native script.

Ieva
Transliteration
Ieva
Pronunciation
/ ˈiː.ɛ.və /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ieva stands.

Ieva does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ievas before her.

Real people
Ieva Simonaitytė
Lithuanian novelist.
1897 – 1978
Ieva Akuratere
Latvian Singing Revolution singer.
born 1958
In fiction
Ieva
Baltic form of Eve.

Names connected to Ieva.

The number behind Ieva.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ieva reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.