Ivans

given name · Latvian · Latin script

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

Ivans 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: patronymic from the Old Norse personal name Ivar (see Iverson).

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 373◐
  • ISIceland1 in 44K
  • EEEstonia1 in 97K

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

≈5.2K ●

across 7 countries

Sources
48 ●

1.0K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 373 ◐

Latvia

Meaning & origin●

patronymic from the Old Norse personal name Ivar (see Iverson).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Ivans is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia#1215,040△347 rec.1 in 3735KIvans48
GB United Kingdom—10750 rec.——Ivans26
US United States—99185 rec.—384Ivans29
PH Philippines—9238 rec.——Ivans6
PE Peru—7763 rec.——Ivans12
MX Mexico—6666 rec.——Ivans13
FI Finland—652 rec.—65Ivans2
EE Estonia—4413 rec.—17Ivans4
PL Poland—35—1 in 1.1M35——
ES Spain—2923 rec.1 in 1.7M29Ivans10
CL Chile—262 rec.—1Ivans11
AR Argentina—2634 rec.——Ivans10

Roughly 5K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 373). 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●

  • Latvian6.3K74%
  • English4475%
  • Spanish4115%
  • Polish1442%
  • Indonesian1412%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Latvian6,25874%
English4475%
Spanish4115%
Polish1442%
Indonesian1412%

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◐

Ivans is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish given name162 records spelled Ivans2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Īvāns

  • Russian given name85 records spelled Ivans8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Russia, Ukraine, Estonia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Иванс, Іванс, Ivāns, Ifans

37 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.

Other recorded senses●

Ivans is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, a male given name from the Slavic languages, equivalent to Russian Ива́н (Iván) or Czech Ivan

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Kriminālgrupas vadonis, kas neatklāj īsto vārdu

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Krievs

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In English, variant of IVERSEN.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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●

0510152015202015 · 2016

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Ivans in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2014–2020
Yearrecords
201410
201511
201615
201713
201814
201912
202014

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 7 years between 2014–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Ivan III, b. 1440Ivan IV, b. 1530Ivan V of Russia, b. 1666Ivan VI of Russia, b. 1740Ivan Goncharov, b. 1812Ivan Konstantinovič Ajvazovskij, b. 1817Ivan Turgenev, b. 1818Ivan Kramskoi, b. 1837Ivan Pavlov, b. 1849Ivan Bunin, b. 1870
  • Ivan IIIb. 1440RUnot in their usual nameGrand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1462 to 1505
  • Ivan IVb. 1530RUnot in their usual nameTsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584
  • Ivan V of Russiab. 1666RUnot in their usual nameTsar of Russia from 1682 to 1696 (lived 1666-1696)
  • Ivan VI of Russiab. 1740RUnot in their usual nameThe fifth Emperor of Russia (1740–1741)
  • Ivan Goncharovb. 1812RUnot in their usual nameRussian novelist and official (1812–1891)
  • Ivan Konstantinovič Ajvazovskijb. 1817UAnot in their usual nameRussian marine painter (1817–1900)
  • Ivan Turgenevb. 1818RUnot in their usual nameRussian writer (1818–1883)
  • Ivan Kramskoib. 1837RUnot in their usual nameRussian artist (1837-1887)
  • Ivan Pavlovb. 1849RUnot in their usual nameRussian physiologist (1849–1936)
  • Ivan Buninb. 1870FRnot in their usual nameRussian writer and poet (1870–1953)

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 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Ivans
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—5K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—5K#105
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000384#51,024
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020363#60,024
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010314#63,524
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—108#7,374
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—65#6,681
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202635#4,304
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—29#43,371
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—28#4,646
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—24#173,031
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—23#24,054

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 51 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ivans?
We estimate roughly 5.2 thousand people bear Ivans (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Ivans have the most bearers?
We estimate about 5.0 thousand people bear Ivans in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ivans.
Where is Ivans most common?
Ivans is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 373 people carrying it.
How common is Ivans compared with other names?
In Latvia, Ivans is the 121st most common given name of 17,921 given names recorded there.
Is Ivans a male or female name?
Ivans 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 Ivans mean?
Recorded meaning: patronymic from the Old Norse personal name Ivar (see Iverson).
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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, “Ivans” — the 121st most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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