Ivo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Germanic ‘yew’; cognate with French Yves, used in Ireland in the de Vesci family
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ivo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 4.2K
- ITItaly≈1 in 8.6K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- 1 in 323 (inferred from the name graph)
50,546 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Germanic ‘yew’; cognate with French Yves, used in Ireland in the de Vesci family.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ivo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #388 | 50,546 | 1 in 4.2K | 63K | Ivo | 176 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 33,174 | 1 in 323 | 33K | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 11,517 | 1 in 367 | 12K | — | — |
| PT Portugal | #141 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | listed | Ivo | 128 |
| IT Italy | #950 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | 1 | Ivo | 121 |
| LV Latvia | — | 2,335 | 1 in 806 | 2.3K | Ivo | 20 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 983 | 1 in 2.1K | 983 | — | 4 |
50,546 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); SURS — resident population given names. 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)
Ivo 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 French, Variant of Yves; from the yew tree. Saint Yves, 19 May.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Germanic, ‘yew’. Aname, cognate with French Yves, which has been used in Ireland in the de Vesci family. Ivor [/omhar] (m) This name probably comes from Norse Ivarr, the name of a number of kings of Dublin. However, there was an Irish saint called /ohar who antedated the Norsemen. Ivor was also used to anglicise Eibhear (see Heber).
as a nameIrish first names
Form of ) Yves used in Germany and occasionally in the English-speaking world. It represents the nominative case of the Latinized form of the name.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A male given name from the Germanic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Se Yvonne.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Ivo Andrićb. 1892BAYugoslav novelist (1892–1975)
- Ivo Perillib. 1902ITscreenwriter
- Yves Montandb. 1921FRnot in their usual nameFrench-Italian actor and singer (1921–1991)
- Ivo Garranib. 1924ITItalian actor (1924-2015)
- Ivo Viktorb. 1942CZCzech footballer
- Ivo Sanaderb. 1953HRCroatian politician, former Prime Minister
- Ivo Josipovićb. 1957HRCroatian politician, third President of Croatia
- Ivo Pogorelićb. 1958HRCroatian pianist
- Ivo Karlovićb. 1979HRCroatian tennis player
- Joël Veltmanb. 1992NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player (born 1992)
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 91 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 63K | #660 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 51K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 50K | #563 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 33K | #115 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 17K | #128 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 12K | #90 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 8.9K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 2.3K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 2.3K | #233 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 983 | #189 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 982 | #398 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 370 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Ivo mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanic ‘yew’; cognate with French Yves, used in Ireland in the de Vesci family. Recorded by Irish first names.
- In which country does Ivo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 51 thousand people named Ivo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ivo.
- Where is Ivo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ivo is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 323 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- Is Ivo a male or female name?
- Ivo 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 are other forms of the name Ivo?
- In the etymology graph, Jack, Johnny and Jo are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Ivan.
- How common is the name Ivo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 50,546 people named Ivo in 2022, about 1 in 4.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Ivo compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Ivo is the 388th most common given name of 474,894 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/ivoThe 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, “Ivo” — the 388th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.