Ivars

surname · Latin script

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

Ivars is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: First recorded in 1896. From Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian Ivar, all from Old Norse Ívarr. Akin to English Ivor.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 18K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 21K
  • SESweden1 in 77K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

2,775 people

Sources
9 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

First recorded in 1896. From Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian Ivar, all from Old Norse Ívarr. Akin to English Ivor.

Sources 1

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ivars 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 Ivars is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain2,7751 in 18K2.8KIvars9
AR Argentina4731 in 96K473——
FI Finland2601 in 21K260Ivars6
SE Sweden1331 in 77K133Ivars8
NO Norway101 in 547K296Ivars5

2,775 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

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

  • Norwegian given name60 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden, Netherlands

    Languages: Norwegian, English, Swedish

    Also written Ivar, Ивар, Иварс, Івар, Іварс

45 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)

Ivars 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)

18001850190019502000Juan Bautista Cabrera Ivars, b. 1837Andrés Ivars, b. 1885Klas Ivars, b. 1937Ann-Marie Ivars, b. 1941Juan Soto Ivars, b. 1985Sébastien Ivars, b. 1987Joshua Ivars Medina, b. 1991

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 30 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Ivars
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.8K#1,835
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.8K#1,835
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—473—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—260#6,019
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—133#5,748
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—114—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—10#55,229

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia surname 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 Ivars mean, and where does it come from?
First recorded in 1896. From Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian Ivar, all from Old Norse Ívarr. Akin to English Ivor. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Ivars have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Ivars, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ivars.
Where is Ivars most common?
Ivars is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Ivars?
In Spain, the national register counted 2,775 people named Ivars, about 1 in 18 thousand 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, “Ivars”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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