Ívar

Name: Ívar: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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given name · Latin script

A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026

/ˈiːva(ː)r/(recorded in a dictionary) Icelandic · from Wiktionary

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Ívar is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country: 20,939 people, counted by Skatteverket. In Norway it is the 54th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse Ívarr. Ívar is also written Ивар in Cyrillic.

SESweden1 in 487(measured from records)
ISIceland1 in 632
NONorway1 in 716

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 Ívar 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.

: Sweden (measured from records)
: 2 (measured from records)
Record sources: 166 (measured from records)
: 1 in 487 (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Ívar in other scripts: Cyrillic

ÍvarLatin

ИварÍvar in Cyrillic

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ivar in NO Norway, SE Sweden, LV Latvia and 3 more.

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.

How to pronounce Ívar

Icelandic:/ˈiːva(ː)r/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Meaning & origin

Ívar

Old NorseÍvarr(measured from records)
Proto-Germanic*īwaz“yew”(inferred from the name graph)via Ívarr
Proto-Indo-European*h₁eyHw-“yew”(inferred from the name graph)via Ívarr
Proto-Germanic*harjaz“warrior”(inferred from the name graph)via Ívarr

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

From Old Norse Ívarr.

Cited for this meaning 2

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Ívar 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 Ívar is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
SE Sweden	#362	20,939	1 in 487	21K	Ivar	79
NO Norway	#54	7,636	1 in 716	26K	Ivar	130
LV Latvia	#258	7,315as Ivars	1 in 257	7.3K	Ivar	16
NL Netherlands	#989	3,091	1 in 5.6K	3.1K	Ivar	67
EE Estonia	#81	≈1,800 est.	≈1 in 780	listed	Ivar	66
IS Iceland	#736	555	1 in 632	555	Ivar	49

20,939 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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

Ívar is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Spanish given name9 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Ivar, Ivár, Ivàr, Ivär, Ìvar
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Ivar
French given name3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, Norway, United States, Netherlands
Also written Ivar
a separate given name2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden, Spain
Also written Ivar

3 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.

Notable people with this name

Ívar Ingimarssonb. 1977ISIcelandic footballer
Ívar Kristinn Jasonarsonb. 1992ISIcelandic athletics competitor
Ivar BårdssonNONorwegian catholic priest

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

InformalHi Ívar,

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

14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ívar mean, and where does it come from?: From Old Norse Ívarr. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
How do you pronounce Ívar?: In Icelandic /ˈiːva(ː)r/ (Wiktionary).
Is Ívar a male or female name?: Ívar is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Iceland (Hagstofa, 2023).
Which countries have the most people named Ívar?: In Sweden, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Ívar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ivar. After it come Norway, Latvia, Netherlands and Estonia; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Ívar most common?: Ívar is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 487 people carrying it.
How common is the name Ívar?: In Sweden, the national register counted 20,939 people named Ívar, about 1 in 487 residents.
How common is Ívar compared with other names?: In Sweden, Ívar is the 362nd most common given name of 45,482 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/%C3%ADvar

The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Ívar” — ranked 206th in Sweden (Skatteverket). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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