Ivalu

given name · Latin script

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

/ibalu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ivalu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the Thule region, meaning "sinew". Name of a character in a Danish novel (1930) by Peter Freuchen.

rarermore common
  • GLGreenland≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DKDenmark1 in 46K
  • ISIceland1 in 175K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Denmark (measured from records)

128 people

Sources
28 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

Greenland, est.

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:

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)

From the Thule region, meaning "sinew". Name of a character in a Danish novel (1930) by Peter Freuchen.

Sources 2

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ivalu 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 Ivalu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DK Denmark1281 in 46K128——
CL Chile≈57 est.≈1 in 319K1Ivalu17
US United States≈21 est.≈1 in 16M—Ivalu13
AR Argentina≈13 est.≈1 in 3.5M2Ivalu18
BR Brazil≈10 est.≈1 in 21M—Ivalu4
GL Greenland≈4 est.≈1 in 13K130——
UY Uruguay≈2 est.≈1 in 1.5M1Ivalu4
IS Iceland21 in 175K2——

128 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012); 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)

Ivalu is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Ivalú

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ivalú

  • Thai given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Avalin, อวาล, อีวาล, Ivalú

23 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)

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)

InformalHola Ivalu,Hi Ivalu, (English)

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)

Attested in 13 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Ivalu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5)2021130—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5)2019129—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—128#1,339
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5)2018125—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5)2017125—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5)2020124—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5)2016124—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5)2015119—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5)2014116—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5)2013108—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5)2011103—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5)2012102—

Reference works 2

  • 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

What does the name Ivalu mean, and where does it come from?
From the Thule region, meaning "sinew". Name of a character in a Danish novel (1930) by Peter Freuchen. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
How do you pronounce Ivalu?
A machine transcription gives /ibalu/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Ivalu a male or female name?
Ivalu is a female 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 Ivalu have the most bearers?
In Denmark, the national register counted about 128 people named Ivalu, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Ivalu?
In Denmark, the national register counted 128 people named Ivalu, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ivalu

The 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, “Ivalu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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