Ivar

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Norwegian: a male given name from Old Norse

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

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

Ivar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Norway it is the 54th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 487(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 716
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 957

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 Ivar 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)

20,939 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
166 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 487 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

IvarLatin(measured from records)
ИварCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

a male given name from Old Norse

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

How Ivar is read(measured from records)

Ivar is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Norwegian22%

    a male given name from Old Norse

    as a wordrecorded as Norwegian Nynorskkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish17%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Ivar in Spanish.

  • English16%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Ivar in English.

  • Swedish8.2%

    The letter "I" in the Swedish spelling alphabet

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ivar 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 Ivar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#36220,9391 in 48721KIvar79
NO Norway#547,6361 in 71626KIvar130
LV Latvia#2587,315as Ivars1 in 2577.3KIvar16
NL Netherlands#9893,0911 in 5.6K3.1KIvar67
BO Bolivia—≈1,800 est.≈1 in 6.3K—Ivar4
EE Estonia#81≈1,300 est.≈1 in 9571.4KIvar66
IS Iceland#7365551 in 632555Ivar49

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); the ee-stat-nimed register; 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(inferred from the name graph)

Ivar is also recorded as 6 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 Ívar, Ivár, Ivàr, Ivär, Ìvar

  • a separate given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden, Spain

    Also written Ívar

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Norway, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ívar

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Norway, United States, Netherlands

    Also written Ívar

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ívar

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Norway, Netherlands, United States

    Also written Ívar

46 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)

Ivar is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, männl. Vom. nordischer Herkunft, des­ sen Entstehung umstritten ist: entweder zu altnord, yr »Eibe, Bogen aus Eibenholz« + altnord, herr »Heer; Heerführer, Krieger« oder Nebenform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Arquero

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Hungarian, to spawn

    as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian

  • In Danish, a male given name from Old Norse, equivalent to English Ivor

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

500100015002000Ivar Ragnarsson, b. 900Ivar Aasen, b. 1813Erik Ivar Fredholm, b. 1866Ivar Tengbom, b. 1878Ivar Smilga, b. 1892Ivar Ballangrud, b. 1904Ivar Giæver, b. 1929Ivar Kants, b. 1949George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven, b. 1961Lord Ivar Mountbatten, b. 1963

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)

InformalHei Ivar,Hi Ivar, (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)

Attested in 65 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Ivar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—26K#171
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—21K#206
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20257.6K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20204.1K—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—3.1K#516
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—2.4K#1,238
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—1.4K#116
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)202558—
NL NetherlandsSVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered)201755#289
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)20264—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—4—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—4#9,601

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

What does the name Ivar mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name from Old Norse Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Ivar?
A machine transcription gives /iːʋɑr/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
Is Ivar a male or female name?
Ivar 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 Ivar have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Ivar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ivar.
Where is Ivar most common?
Ivar is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 487 people carrying it.
What are other forms of the name Ivar?
In the etymology graph, Aivars, Aivar and Iivo are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Ivar?
In Sweden, the national register counted 20,939 people named Ivar, about 1 in 487 residents.
How common is Ivar compared with other names?
In Sweden, Ivar is the 362nd most common given name of 45,482 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, “Ivar” — the 362nd most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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