Ivete
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Yvette (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/iˈbɛ.tɨ/(recorded in a dictionary) Portuguese · from Wiktionary
Ivete is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 42,057 people, counted by IBGE in 2022. In Mozambique it is the 95th most common given name.
- BRBrazil1 in 5K(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 15Kfew records
- PYParaguay≈1 in 120Kfew records
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
42,057 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mozambique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Ivete
- Portuguese:/iˈbɛ.tɨ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a female given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Yvette
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ivete 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #499 | 42,057 | 1 in 5K | 48K | Ivete | 116 |
| MZ Mozambique | #95 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 1 | Ivete | 13 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Ivete | 13 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Ivete | 38 |
| US United States | — | 196 | 1 in 1.7M | 194 | Ivete | 80 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Ivete | 5 |
42,057 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)Ivete is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Ivete Vargasb. 1927BRBrazilian journalist and politician (1927–1984)
- Ivete Silveirab. 1943BRBrazilian teacher and politician
- Maria Ivete Castro BoulosBRBrazilian physician
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ivete mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Yvette Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Ivete?
- In the etymology graph, Yvette and Evette are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ivete?
- In Portuguese /iˈbɛ.tɨ/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Ivete a male or female name?
- Ivete is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Ivete?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Ivete, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ivete. After it come Mozambique, Angola, Portugal and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ivete?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 42,057 people named Ivete in 2022, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Ivete compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Ivete is the 499th most common given name of 474,894 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/iveteThe 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, “Ivete” — ranked 309th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.