Iván
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Ivan, Evan, or Ian (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries
/iˈban/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Iván 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. Iván 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 Iván 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
Iván 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.
How to pronounce Iván
- Spanish:/iˈban/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name, equivalent to English Ivan, Evan, or Ian
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Iván 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Iván is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Forma rusa de Juan; equivalente de John/Ioannes.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Dios es misericordioso
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ivan IIIb. 1440RUGrand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1462 to 1505
- Ivan V of Russiab. 1666RUTsar of Russia from 1682 to 1696 (lived 1666-1696)
- Ivan Konstantinovič Ajvazovskijb. 1817UARussian marine painter (1817–1900)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Iván mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Ivan, Evan, or Ian Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Iván?
- In the etymology graph, John, Jack and Sean are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Iván?
- In Spanish /iˈban/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named Iván?
- 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 Iván most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Iván is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 32 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- Is Iván a male or female name?
- Iván is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Hungary (Nyilvántartó, 2025) and Argentina (datos.gob.ar, 2015).
- How common is the name Iván?
- In Spain, the national register counted 138,979 people named Iván, about 1 in 360 residents.
- How common is Iván compared with other names?
- In Russia, Iván is the 28th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iv%C3%A1nThe 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, “Iván” — the 28th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.