Ajvar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: caviar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ajvar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Estonia than in any other country, where it is the 37th most common given name.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 554as Aivar(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 72Kas Айвар
- GYGuyana1 in 2Kas Ivor
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ajvar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Estonia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 554 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 named Aivar, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est., as Aivar
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Айвар in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Aivar in EE Estonia, US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
caviar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ajvar counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | #37 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 554 | 3.8K | Aivar | 72 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 72K | #788 | Айвар | 121 |
| US United States | — | 979as Ivor | 1 in 340K | 940 | Aivar | 59 |
| HR Croatia | — | 815as Ivor | 1 in 5.2K | 1K | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 375as Ivor | 1 in 2K | 375 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 355as Yvar | 1 in 49K | 355 | — | 1 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 71K | 175 | Айвар | 30 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ajvar is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A relish made principally out of red bell peppers, sometimes with eggplant, garlic and chili pepper, predominantly popular in the Western Balkans.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ajvar mean, and where does it come from?
- caviar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ajvar a male or female name?
- Ajvar is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ajvar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Aivar in Estonia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ajvar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 979 people named Ivor in 2020, about 1 in 340 thousand residents.
- How common is Ajvar compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Ajvar is the 37th most common given name of 9,600 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ajvarThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ajvar” — the 37th most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.