Kivi
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Estonian and Finnish Kivi.
Proper noun edit
Kivi (plural Kivis)
- A surname.
Statistics edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Kivi is the 39717th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 553 individuals. Kivi is most common among White (95.12%) individuals.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Kivi”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 313.
Estonian edit
Etymology edit
Proper noun edit
Kivi (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- a surname
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From kivi (“stone”), mostly in late 19th and early 20th centuries, often as a translation of Swedish surnames containing the word sten (“stone”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Kivi
- a Finnish surname from landscape, notably of the first Finnish novelist Aleksis Kivi
Declension edit
Inflection of Kivi (Kotus type 7/ovi, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Kivi | Kivet | ||
genitive | Kiven | Kivien | ||
partitive | Kiveä | Kiviä | ||
illative | Kiveen | Kiviin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Kivi | Kivet | ||
accusative | nom. | Kivi | Kivet | |
gen. | Kiven | |||
genitive | Kiven | Kivien | ||
partitive | Kiveä | Kiviä | ||
inessive | Kivessä | Kivissä | ||
elative | Kivestä | Kivistä | ||
illative | Kiveen | Kiviin | ||
adessive | Kivellä | Kivillä | ||
ablative | Kiveltä | Kiviltä | ||
allative | Kivelle | Kiville | ||
essive | Kivenä | Kivinä | ||
translative | Kiveksi | Kiviksi | ||
abessive | Kivettä | Kivittä | ||
instructive | — | Kivin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Related terms edit
Statistics edit
- Kivi is the 728th 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.