Kivi

Borrowed from Estonian and Finnish Kivi.

Kivi (plural Kivis)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Kivi is the 39717^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 553 individuals. Kivi is most common among White (95.12%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Kivi”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 313.

From kivi (“stone”).

Kivi (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. a surname

From kivi (“stone”), mostly in late 19th and early 20th centuries, often as a translation of Swedish surnames containing the word sten (“stone”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiʋi/, [ˈk̟iʋi]
• Rhymes: -iʋi
• Syllabification^(key): Ki‧vi
• Hyphenation^(key): Ki‧vi

Kivi

1. a Finnish surname from landscape, notably of the first Finnish novelist Aleksis Kivi

• Kivi is the 728^th most common surname in Finland, belonging to 1,212 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.