Ive
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: OFr Ive, Yve(s), Ivon; first attested Herbertus filius Iuonis 1086 DB
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female
- Norway (SSB): listed as female
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes
- Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/jbɛ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Ive is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 4.5K(measured from records)
- NONorway≈1 in 77K
- SESweden1 in 89K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
933 people, 2021
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is 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)OFr Ive, Yve(s), Ivon; first attested Herbertus filius Iuonis 1086 DB
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ive is read
(measured from records)Ive 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.
- Croatian32%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ive in Croatian.
- English22%
OFr Ive, Yve(s), Ivon; first attested Herbertus filius Iuonis 1086 DB
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
gin a short form of any of the various Gmc cpd names with a first element tv (ON yr, pi. ifar) yew, bow (a weapon generally made from the supple wood of the yew tree). This was a popular name in Normandy and Brittany, and was introduced into England at the time of the Con¬ Ivy see Ivey 318 Iwahczyk Iwahczyk see John Iwarsson see Ivor Iwen see Ive Iwers see Ivor Izzard Izchaki see Isaac
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Misspelling of I've.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish14%
acronym of interrupción voluntaria del embarazo (“voluntary termination of pregnancy”), an induced abortion
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ive in Portuguese.
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)Ive 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | — | 933 | 1 in 4.5K | 933 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 842 | 1 in 251K | 842 | Ive | 78 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 259K | — | Ive | 21 |
| IN India | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | 4 | Ive | 12 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 3 | Ive | 17 |
| SE Sweden | — | 114 | 1 in 89K | 114 | — | 8 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 77K | 480 | — | 4 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 42K | listed | Ive | 6 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #723 | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Ive | 11 |
933 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the in-instate-surnames-bystate 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Ive is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, the calendar (if) next in order, to exhaust, wide apart plainly, the teeth wide apart. successive generations, successive emperors of history. successive dynasties. for a long time past. lik-¢6, (or ding) REE (BE) X to make a full statement
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, to lay aside, to renounce, to tk X — to give freedom to a slave
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)- Ive Jelenovićb. 1898HRCroatian linguist and philologist (1898-1981)
- Ive Šubicb. 1922SIpainter and illustrator (1922-1989)
- Ive Mažuranb. 1928HRCroatian historian
- Ive Livljanićb. 1938HRCroatian academic, politician, diplomat and writer
- Ive Dovžanb. 1940SI1940 Ljubljana instrumentalist, skladatelj / avtor glasbe
- Ive Šimat Banovb. 1951HRCroatian art historian and art critic
- Michael Anefurb. 1957SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician
- Ive Jerolimovb. 1958HRCroatian footballer (born 1958)
- Ive Sulenticb. 1979CACanadian soccer player
- Ive Ivanovb. 1985HRCroatian basketball player
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)44 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 29 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #36,388 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #120,830 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Ive?
- In Portuguese /jbɛ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Ive mean, and where does it come from?
- OFr Ive, Yve(s), Ivon; first attested Herbertus filius Iuonis 1086 DB Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Is Ive a male or female name?
- Ive is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female; Norway (SSB): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes; Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Ive have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 933 people named Ive, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ive most common?
- Ive is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ive?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 933 people named Ive in 2021, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Ive compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Ive is the 723rd most common given name of 1,886 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/iveThe 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, “Ive” — the 723rd most common given name in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.