Iwan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Polish spelling of the personal name Ivan, East Slavic form of Jan (see John)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈiwan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Iwan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country, where it is the 54th most common given name.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 9.7K
- NLNetherlands1 in 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 223 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Polish spelling of the personal name Ivan, East Slavic form of Jan (see John).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Iwan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #54 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | listed | Iwan | 223 |
| CN China | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Iwan | 10 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Iwan | 36 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,882 | 1 in 6K | 2.9K | Iwan | 42 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 64K | listed | Iwan | 39 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Iwan | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 4 | Iwan | 13 |
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: the id-github-names register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Iwan 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 English, A large, vaulted chamber with a monumental arched opening on one side.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Forme slave/polonaise de Jean, du hébreu Yôḥānān, « Dieu fait grâce ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Origine celtique; signifie « if »; variante d’Yves.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In German, Patronym zu Iwan, slaw. Form von Johannes; in Deutschland auch aus Rufname Iwein möglich. 424 Bearer in Dtld.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, from the Arthurian name Iwein/Ivan
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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. 1440RUnot in their usual nameGrand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1462 to 1505
- Ivan IVb. 1530RUnot in their usual nameTsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584
- Ivan V of Russiab. 1666RUnot in their usual nameTsar of Russia from 1682 to 1696 (lived 1666-1696)
- Ivan Goncharovb. 1812RUnot in their usual nameRussian novelist and official (1812–1891)
- Ivan Konstantinovič Ajvazovskijb. 1817UAnot in their usual nameRussian marine painter (1817–1900)
- Ivan Turgenevb. 1818RUnot in their usual nameRussian writer (1818–1883)
- Ivan Kramskoib. 1837RUnot in their usual nameRussian artist (1837-1887)
- Ivan Pavlovb. 1849RUnot in their usual nameRussian physiologist (1849–1936)
- Ivan Buninb. 1870FRnot in their usual nameRussian writer and poet (1870–1953)
- Yanka Kupalab. 1882BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian writer (1882–1942)
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)
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 58 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2.9K | #543 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 2K | #1,348 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 13 | #19,144 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2019 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Iwan mean, and where does it come from?
- Polish spelling of the personal name Ivan, East Slavic form of Jan (see John). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Iwan?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈiwan/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- What are other forms of the name Iwan?
- In the etymology graph, John, Ivan and Jack are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Iwan a male or female name?
- Iwan 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 Iwan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 215 thousand people named Iwan in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iwan.
- How common is the name Iwan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,882 people named Iwan, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Iwan compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Iwan is the 54th most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Iwan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iwanThe 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, “Iwan” — the 54th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.