Ívan

given name · Latin script

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

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries

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

Ívan is a male 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.

rarermore common
  • 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 Ívan 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)

≈1,400,000 named Иван, est.

#37 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
511 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 32 (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
ÍvanLatin(measured from records)
ИванCyrillic(measured from records)
ԻվանArmenian(measured from records)
ΙβανGreek(measured from records)
ইভানBengali(measured from records)
이반Hangul(measured from records)
ივანGeorgian(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ivan in US United States, HR Croatia, ES Spain and 1 more, 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Ívan 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 Ívan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#28≈1,400,000 est.≈1 in 100register #6Иван289
UA Ukraine#14≈780,000 est.≈1 in 56listedІван158
US United States#444254,255as Evan1 in 1.3K250KIvan511
ID Indonesia#213≈190,000 est.≈1 in 1.4KlistedIvan214
BG Bulgaria#2151,005as Иван1 in 46151KИван218
ES Spain#52138,9791 in 360139KIvan253
HR Croatia#2130,8281 in 32131KIvan208
MD Moldova—54,7171 in 6155KИван40

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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Ívan is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Urdu surname113 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, United States, Laos, United Kingdom

    Languages: Urdu, English, Arabic

    Also written Awan, Ivan, Iván, Iwan, อีวาน

  • Hungarian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Russia, Switzerland

    Also written Ivan, Iván, Ivàn, Ivân, Ivãn

1 further group 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.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
InformalHola Ívan,Hi Ívan, (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)

5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.

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

How do you pronounce Ívan?
A machine transcription gives /iβan/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Ívan a male or female name?
Ívan 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 Ívan 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 Ívan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ívan is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 32 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ívan?
In Spain, the national register counted 138,979 people named Ívan, about 1 in 360 residents.
How common is Ívan compared with other names?
In Russia, Ívan is the 28th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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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, “Ívan” — the 28th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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