Aivars
given name · Latvian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aivars is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: garīgi atpalicis, pamuļķis (kriminālvidē).
- LVLatvia1 in 192◐
- ISIceland1 in 19K
- NONorway1 in 106K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈9.9K ●
- Sources
- 18 ●
- 1 in 192 ◐
across 5 countries
35 records
Official registry-verified
Latvia
Meaning & origin●
garīgi atpalicis, pamuļķis (kriminālvidē)
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | 9,775△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 192 | 9.8K | Aivars | 3 |
| NO Norway | 226 | 3 rec. | — | 224 | Aivars | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 52△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 196K | 52 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 32 | — | 1 in 1.2M | 32 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 18△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 19K | 18 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 16 | 12 rec. | 1 in 367K | 16 | Aivars | 18 |
| FI Finland | — | — | — | 176 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | — | — | 2 | — | — |
| AU Australia | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| LT Lithuania | — | — | — | listed | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | — | — | 43 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1 rec. | — | listed | — | 1 |
Roughly 9.8K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 192). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Latvian15K82%
- English1.1K6%
- Norwegian Bokmål2241%
- Finnish1981%
- German1771%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Latvian | 15,265 | 82% |
| English | 1,121 | 6% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 224 | 1% |
| Finnish | 198 | 1% |
| German | 177 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Aivars 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, Vīrieša 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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 10 |
| 2001 | 10 |
| 2004 | 10 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2009 | 11 |
| 2010 | 13 |
| 2011 | 16 |
| 2012 | 18 |
| 2013 | 19 |
| 2014 | 22 |
| 2015 | 25 |
| 2016 | 31 |
| 2017 | 34 |
| 2018 | 34 |
| 2019 | 35 |
| 2020 | 37 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 19 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Aivars Gulbisb. 1933LVLatvian sculptor
- Aivars Gipslisb. 1937LVLatvian chess player (1937-2000)
- Aivars Endziņšb. 1940LVLatvian politician (1940–2023)
- Aivars Siliņšb. 1947LVSoviet actor (1947-2016)
- Aivars Kalējsb. 1951LVLatvian composer, organist and pianist (born 1951)
- Aivars Lembergsb. 1953LVLatvian politician (born 1953)
- Aivars Lazdenieksb. 1954LVLatvian rower (1954–2023)
- Aivars Drupassb. 1963LVLatvian footballer (1963-1999)
- Aivars Pozņaksb. 1968LVLatvian association football player (born 1968)
- Aivars Polisb. 1972LVLatvian luger (born 1972)
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 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 9.8K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 9.7K | #36 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 224 | #4,412 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 176 | #3,727 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 52 | #13,231 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 43 | #1,023 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 37 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 35 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 34 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 34 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 32 | #4,534 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 31 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 43 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Aivars?
- We estimate roughly 9.9 thousand people bear Aivars (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Aivars have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 9.8 thousand people bear Aivars in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled aivars.
- Where is Aivars most common?
- Aivars is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 192 people carrying it.
- Is Aivars a male or female name?
- Aivars 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 Aivars mean?
- Recorded meaning: garīgi atpalicis, pamuļķis (kriminālvidē)
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aivarsThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
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, “Aivars”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.