Kõiv is an Estonian surname. The word means "

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Võro Võro may refer to: * Võro people, an ethnic group of Estonia * Võro language, a language belonging to the Baltic-Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric languages of Estonia * Võro Institute, the governing organization of the Võro language Voro ma ...

. According to the Estonian Population Register, there lived 1,242 people with the surname Kõiv in Estonia, as of 8 May 2012. Notable bearers of the name Kõiv include: * Karl Kõiv (1894–1972), featherweight weightlifter * Kauri Kõiv (born 1983), biathlete *

Kerli Kõiv Kerli Kõiv (; born 7 February 1987), better known mononymously as Kerli, is an Estonian singer and songwriter. Born in Elva, Kerli entered multiple singing competitions before being signed to Island Records in 2006 by LA Reid. In 2007, she rele ...

(born 1987), singer and songwriter * Küllo Kõiv (1972–1998), wrestler *

Madis Kõiv Madis Kõiv (5 December 1929, Tartu, Estonia – 24 September 2014, Tartu, Estonia) was an Estonian writer, philosopher and physicist. Education Kõiv attended school in Tartu after the second World War, graduating in the early 1950s with a d ...

(1929–2014), author, physicist and philosopher *

Tõnis Kõiv Tõnis Kõiv (born 29 October 1970, in Paide) is an Estonian politician and lawyer who represented the Estonian Reform Party in the Riigikogu from 2005 to 2015. Education Kõiv graduated from Koeru Secondary School in 1989 and from the Facult ...

(born 1970), politician * Tõnu Kõiv (born 1968), politician

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Koiv Estonian-language surnames

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