Aivars

given name · Latin script

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

Aivars is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: garīgi atpalicis, pamuļķis (kriminālvidē).

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 192(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 19K
  • SESweden1 in 196K

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)

9,775 people

Sources
16 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 192 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Latvian

garīgi atpalicis, pamuļķis (kriminālvidē)

Sources 1

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

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Aivars 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 Aivars is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia9,7751 in 1929.8KAivars3
SE Sweden521 in 196K52Aivars4
PL Poland321 in 1.2M32——
IS Iceland181 in 19K18—2
DK Denmark161 in 367K16Aivars16

9,775 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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); 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)

Aivars is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus

    Languages: Russian, Latvian, Ukrainian

    Also written Айварс, Ajvars, Аиварс, Аіварс

37 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Aivars 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 Latvian, Vīrieša vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1920194019601980Aivars Gulbis, b. 1933Aivars Gipslis, b. 1937Aivars Endziņš, b. 1940Aivars Siliņš, b. 1947Aivars Kalējs, b. 1951Aivars Lembergs, b. 1953Aivars Lazdenieks, b. 1954Aivars Drupass, b. 1963Aivars Pozņaks, b. 1968Aivars Polis, b. 1972

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 19 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Aivars
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—9.8K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—9.7K#36
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—52#13,231
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202037—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201935—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201834—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201734—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202632#4,534
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201631—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—30#4,509
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201525—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201422—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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

Is Aivars a male or female name?
Aivars 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 does the name Aivars mean?
Recorded meaning: garīgi atpalicis, pamuļķis (kriminālvidē)
What are other forms of the name Aivars?
In the etymology graph, Ivar, Ivor and Iver are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Aivars have the most bearers?
In Latvia, the national register counted about 9.8 thousand people named Aivars, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aivars.
Where is Aivars most common?
Aivars is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 192 people carrying it.
How common is the name Aivars?
In Latvia, the national register counted 9,775 people named Aivars, about 1 in 192 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, “Aivars”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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