Family name origins & meanings
- Ukrainian and Belorussian : from a diminutive of Sliva.
- Jewish (from Ukraine, Poland, and Bohemia) : ornamental name or occupational name for a grower or seller of plums, from Polish śliwka ‘plum’ (see Sliwa).
- Jewish (from Belarus) : habitational name from a village called Slivka or for someone who lived by the Slivka river in Belarus.