Aivar

given name · Estonian · Latin script

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

Aivar is a given name, most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is the 40th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Estonian and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Latvian Aivars, a cognate of the English Ivor and Estonian Ivar.

rarermore common
  • EEEstonia1 in 421◐
  • RURussia1 in 130K
  • FIFinland1 in 199K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈3.2K ●

across 14 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
111 ●

9.6K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.0K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

AivarLatin · Estonian●10K records
АйварCyrillic · Russian●8.2K records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Айвар in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UA Ukraine and 3 more, Ajvar in LV Latvia, Yvar in NL Netherlands and Ivor in GB United Kingdom.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

From Latvian Aivars, a cognate of the English Ivor and Estonian Ivar.

Sources 1

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Aivar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EE Estonia#4010,0811.2K rec.—3.8KAivar65
RU Russia—7,9525.5K rec.—#788Айвар111
US United States—940△122 rec.1 in 354K940Aivar52
HR Croatia—815—1 in 5.2K1K——
UA Ukraine—417414 rec.——Айвар13
GY Guyana—375—1 in 2K375——
NL Netherlands—355△13 rec.1 in 49K355Yvar2
BR Brazil—312—1 in 679K371——
KZ Kazakhstan—175396 rec.1 in 109K175Айвар30
KG Kyrgyzstan—11162 rec.——Айвар9
GB United Kingdom—7739 rec.—5Ivor20
ES Spain—56△26 rec.1 in 893K223Aivar5

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Languages●

  • Estonian10K78%
  • Finnish1.1K8%
  • Spanish5644%
  • English1952%
  • Hindi1811%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Estonian10,19478%
Finnish1,0838%
Spanish5644%
English1952%
Hindi1811%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

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

  • Spanish given name4.5K records spelled Aivar5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Spain, Argentina, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Áivar, Aĭvar

  • English given name763 records spelled Aivar6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, United States, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Aĭvar

  • French given name385 records spelled Aivar3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, Estonia

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Aïvar

  • a separate given name68 records spelled Aivar2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Estonia, United States

    Also written Aĭvar

34 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.

Over time●

0510152020102015202019 · 2019

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Aivar in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2010–2020
Yearrecords
201010
201111
201213
201313
201412
201515
201616
201715
201817
201919
202019

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 11 years between 2010–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1960197019801990Aivar Kokk, b. 1960Aivar Riisalu, b. 1961Aivar Pohlak, b. 1962Aivar Lillevere, b. 1962Aivar Sõerd, b. 1964Aivar Kuusmaa, b. 1967Aivar Priidel, b. 1977Aivar Anniste, b. 1980Aivar Rehemaa, b. 1982

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 28 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Aivar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register)—3.8K#20
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—3.8K#20
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1K#1,485
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—223#15,243
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—223#15,227
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—62—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—34#38,338
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—28#16,295
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—28—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—27#20,544
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—21#25,415
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202019—

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 2026-09-12 data build · 76 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aivar?
We estimate roughly 3.2 thousand people bear Aivar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Aivar have the most bearers?
Aivar is most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is most often spelled aivar.
How common is Aivar compared with other names?
In Estonia, Aivar is the 40th most common given name of 14,570 given names recorded there.
Is Aivar a male or female name?
Aivar 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.
What does the name Aivar mean?
Recorded meaning: From Latvian Aivars, a cognate of the English Ivor and Estonian Ivar.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Aivar” — the 40th most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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