Ilmārs

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ilmārs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 734(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 117K
  • SESweden1 in 510K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Latvia (measured from records)

2,563 people

Sources
20 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 734 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ilmars in LV Latvia.

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)

recorded in Latvian

Vīrieša vārds

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ilmārs 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.

Where Ilmārs is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia2,5631 in 7342.6KIlmars11
SE Sweden201 in 510K20——
PL Poland51 in 7.7M5—1
DK Denmark41 in 1.5M4——
IS Iceland31 in 117K3——

2,563 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register), counting the spelling ilmārs. 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ilmārs is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ilmars

  • Russian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Latvia, Ukraine, Serbia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Илмарс, Ильмарс, Ілмарс, Ilmars

  • Lithuanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Ilmars

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ilmars

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Ilmars

  • Estonian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Estonia

    Also written Ilmars

16 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1920194019601980Ilmārs Bišers, b. 1930Ilmārs Blumbergs, b. 1943Ilmārs Liepiņš, b. 1947Ilmārs Verpakovskis, b. 1958Ilmārs Latkovskis, b. 1958Ilmārs Rimšēvičs, b. 1965Ilmārs Šlāpins, b. 1968Ilmārs Bricis, b. 1970Ilmārs Poikāns, b. 1978Ilmārs Starostīts, b. 1979

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Ilmārs
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—2.6K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—2.5K#214
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5#17,283
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20265#17,283

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ilmārs mean?
Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
Is Ilmārs a male or female name?
Ilmārs 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.
What are other forms of the name Ilmārs?
In the etymology graph, Ilmar is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Ilmārs have the most bearers?
In Latvia, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Ilmārs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ilmars.
Where is Ilmārs most common?
Ilmārs is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 734 people carrying it.
How common is the name Ilmārs?
In Latvia, the national register counted 2,563 people named Ilmārs, about 1 in 734 residents.

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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, “Ilmārs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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