Iveta
A Germanic name meaning "yew tree". Only about 125 women in Poland carry it, rare enough that most people here have never met one.
Iveta Pronunciation
What Iveta means
Where Iveta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Iveta grows from a Germanic root, iwa, the word for the yew tree. The same root stands behind Yves, Yvonne, and Ivo, names that spread through medieval France. Yew wood built bows and outlived the archers who drew them. The yew keeps its needles through winter.
In Polish records the name also shows up as Iweta, the same sound spelled with a w. Both forms mean drzewo cisowe, the yew tree.
The name travelled east. It is common in Latvia and Slovakia, and rarer in Poland. Iveta Radičová became Slovakia's first woman prime minister, holding office from 2010 to 2012.
For a Polish register, the choice comes down to two letters: Iveta or Iweta.
How many people are named Iveta
1 in 180351 women in Poland is named Iveta. 125 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2999 among female names.
Iveta as a middle name
Iveta is a first name for 125 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 95/5 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3286th, between Iskra (6) and Ivon (6).
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#3284 Irwina6
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#3285 Iskra6
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#3286 Iveta6
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#3287 Ivon6
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#3288 Iwonia6