Ivan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ivan is a 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: Slavic form of John/Jean, Hebrew Yohanan, 'God is gracious'.
- HRCroatia1 in 32(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 360
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.4K
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 Ivan 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)
- Sources
- 511 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400,000 named Иван, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 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)
Slavic form of John/Jean, Hebrew Yohanan, 'God is gracious'.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ivan 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 | ≈1,400,000 est. | ≈1 in 100 | #6 | Иван | 289 |
| UA Ukraine | #14 | ≈780,000 est. | ≈1 in 56 | listed | Іван | 158 |
| US United States | #444 | 254,255as Evan | 1 in 1.3K | 250K | Ivan | 511 |
| ID Indonesia | #213 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Ivan | 214 |
| 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 | #773 | 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; 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)
Ivan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, Russian/Ukrainian/Bulgarian form of John; recorded in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
from the personal name Ivan, eastern Slavic form of John. It may also be a shortened form of a Slovenian or Croatian patronymic derived from the personal name Ivan (i.e. Slovenian Ivanc, Ivancic, or Ivanjko; Croatian Ivancic, Ivanic, Ivancevic).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Russian form of jJohn, sometimes used in the English-speaking world in the 20th century. In Northern Ireland it is sometimes found as a variant of }Ewan.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
The Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian form of John, sometimes used in western countries. It has been recorded in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, A male given name from Russian of English speakers.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 Goncharovb. 1812RURussian novelist and official (1812–1891)
- Ivan Konstantinovič Ajvazovskijb. 1817UARussian marine painter (1817–1900)
- Ivan Turgenevb. 1818RURussian writer (1818–1883)
- Ivan Kramskoib. 1837RURussian artist (1837-1887)
- Ivan Pavlovb. 1849RURussian physiologist (1849–1936)
- Ivan Buninb. 1870FRRussian writer and poet (1870–1953)
- Yanka Kupalab. 1882BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian writer (1882–1942)
- Ivan Lendlb. 1960USCzech and American tennis player (born 1960)
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 147 sources across 74 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | NSI — most common given names (population) | 2018 | 151K | #2 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 139K | #60 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 137K | #413 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 136K | #34 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 131K | #1 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 107K | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 55K | #13 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2.2K | — |
| BG Bulgaria | NSI — newborn names (press release) | 2018 | 547 | #9 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 535 | #413 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 are other forms of the name Ivan?
- In the etymology graph, John, Jack and Sean are forms of the same name in other languages; Ivo, Ivica and Vanya are recorded short or pet forms.
- What does the name Ivan mean, and where does it come from?
- Slavic form of John/Jean, Hebrew Yohanan, 'God is gracious'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- Is Ivan a male or female name?
- Ivan 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.
- In which country does Ivan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 million people named Иван in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ivan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ivan is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 32 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ivan?
- In Spain, the national register counted 138,979 people named Ivan, about 1 in 360 residents.
- How common is Ivan compared with other names?
- In Russia, Ivan is the 28th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ivan?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ivanThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ivan” — the 28th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.