Ivalu

Spellings & scripts●

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●

Languages●

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◐

Ivalu is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name294 records spelled Ivalu5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, Argentina

  Languages: English, German

  Also written Ivalú

• a separate name7 records spelled Ivalu2 spellings in the group

  Also written Ivalú

• Thai surname5 records spelled Ivalu6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand, Laos

  Languages: Thai, Lao

  Also written อวาล, Avalin, Ivalú, อีวาล

23 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●

GL Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) — 11 years between 2011–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Ivalu Bjergeb. 2000Greenland handball 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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 54 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ivalu?

We estimate roughly 139 people bear Ivalu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.

In which country does Ivalu have the most bearers?

Ivalu is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled ivalu.

Where is Ivalu most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ivalu is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 46 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

Is Ivalu a male or female name?

Ivalu is a female 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 Ivalu mean?

Recorded meaning: From the Thule region, meaning "sinew". Name of a character in a Danish novel (1930) by Peter Freuchen.