Ivàn
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Ivàn is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Russian Ива́н (Iván). First recorded in Sweden in 1797. Ivàn is also written Иван in Cyrillic, Իվան in Armenian and Ιβαν in Greek.
- HRCroatia1 in 32(measured from records)
- MDMoldova1 in 61
- CZCzechia1 in 233
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 Ivàn 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #37 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 511 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500,000 named Иван, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Ivàn in other scripts: Cyrillic, Armenian, Greek and 3 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ivan in US United States, MX Mexico, HR Croatia and 2 more, Иван in RU Russia, BG Bulgaria, MD Moldova and Іван in UA Ukraine.
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)- RussianИва́нIván(measured from records)
- Old Church SlavonicЇѡанъIoanŭ(inferred from the name graph)via Ива́н
- Ancient GreekἸωάννηςIōánnēs(inferred from the name graph)via Ива́н
- HebrewיוֹחָנָןYôḥānān“God is gracious”(inferred from the name graph)via Ива́н
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From Russian Ива́н (Iván). First recorded in Sweden in 1797.
Cited for this meaning 9
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Irish first names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ivàn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #28 | ≈1,500,000 est. | ≈1 in 94 | register #6 | Иван | 289 |
| UA Ukraine | #14 | ≈690,000 est. | ≈1 in 55 | listed | Іван | 158 |
| US United States | #444 | 254,255as Evan | 1 in 1.3K | 250K | Ivan | 511 |
| ID Indonesia | #213 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Ivan | 214 |
| MX Mexico | #82 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 659 | 5 | Ivan | 259 |
| BG Bulgaria | #2 | 151,005as Иван | 1 in 46 | 151K | Иван | 218 |
| ES Spain | #52 | 138,979 | 1 in 360 | 139K | Ivan | 253 |
| HR Croatia | #2 | 130,828 | 1 in 32 | 131K | Ivan | 208 |
| MD Moldova | — | 54,717 | 1 in 61 | 55K | Иван | 40 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); NSI — most common given names (population); e-services.md — living population register. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ivàn mean, and where does it come from?
- From Russian Ива́н (Iván). First recorded in Sweden in 1797. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 7 other sources.
- Is Ivàn a male or female name?
- Ivàn 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Ivàn?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 million people named Иван in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, United States, Indonesia and Mexico; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ivàn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ivàn is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 32 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ivàn?
- In Spain, the national register counted 138,979 people named Ivàn, about 1 in 360 residents.
- How common is Ivàn compared with other names?
- In Russia, Ivàn is the 28th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iv%C3%A0nThe 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, “Ivàn” — the 28th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.