Fun Facts About the Name Kriva
- 86 babies named Kriva: U.S. records list 86 babies given the name Kriva from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Kriva Mean?
Kriva comes from the Slavic adjective kriv, which means "crooked, bent, or curved." The ending -a is the feminine form of that adjective, so kriva literally describes something feminine that is bent or crooked. In South Slavic languages such as Serbian, Croatian, and Macedonian, kriv and kriva also carry the figurative sense "guilty" or "at fault," and in Slovene kriva can mean "the cause" of something. That moral sense is an extension of the physical one, not a separate root. The name has no etymology apart from this Slavic adjective.
Kriva Name History & Origins
The root kriv- is common across the Slavic languages and appears frequently in place names that describe a curve in the landscape. Examples include Kriva Reka ("crooked river") in Bulgaria and Serbia and the town of Kriva Palanka in North Macedonia. In these names the word describes a landform, not a person.
The same adjective underlies surnames in Slavic-speaking Central Europe, such as Czech Křivý and its feminine form Křivá, and Slovak Krivý. These are descriptive bynames given to someone who lived by a bend in a road or river, or who was thought to be crooked in some way.
Use of Kriva as a personal given name is not well documented. Slavic given names most often come from compound names of the Vladimir type or from saints' names, while short descriptive adjectives of this kind are far more typical of surnames and place names. Where Kriva appears as a personal name, it is most plausibly a use of the word itself as a name rather than a distinct traditional given name with its own line of descent.
How Popular is the Name Kriva?
Kriva has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2024. Its best rank was #5,211 in 2024.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #5,322 | 24 | 0.0015% |
| 2024 | #5,211 | 25 | 0.0015% |
| 2023 | #6,805 | 17 | 0.0011% |
| 2021 | #16,570 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2020 | #11,649 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2019 | #13,167 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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