Ivars

surname · Spanish · Latin script

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

Ivars is a surname, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Spanish and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: First recorded in 1896. From Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian Ivar, all from Old Norse Ívarr. Akin to English Ivor.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 18K◐
  • FIFinland1 in 21K
  • SESweden1 in 77K

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

≈3.8K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
9 ●

70 records

Official registry-verified

1 in 18K ◐

Spain

Meaning & origin●

First recorded in 1896. From Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian Ivar, all from Old Norse Ívarr. Akin to English Ivor.

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 Ivars is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain2,775△13 rec.1 in 18K2.8KIvars9
AR Argentina473—1 in 96K473——
FI Finland260△6 rec.1 in 21K260Ivars6
FR France136—1 in 499K136——
SE Sweden133△6 rec.1 in 77K133Ivars7
NO Norway106 rec.1 in 547K296Ivars3
BE Belgium21 rec.1 in 5.9M2—1
CZ Czechia2—1 in 5.4M2——
CR Costa Rica1—1 in 5.1M1——
LV Latvia—13 rec.—7.3K—6
US United States—13 rec.—186—5
PL Poland———39——

Roughly 2.8K people in Spain bear this name (about 1 in 18K). 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●

  • Spanish18K66%
  • French4.2K15%
  • Catalan2.8K10%
  • English5052%
  • Finnish3791%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish17,74666%
French4,16315%
Catalan2,77510%
English5052%
Finnish3791%

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◐

Ivars is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name255 records spelled Ivars62 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Netherlands, Finland, United States

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Finnish, English

    Also written Ivar, Hanson, Ивар, Иварс, Івар

45 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●

Ivars 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●

02040602000200520102015202042 · 2018

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Ivars in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199917
200018
200118
200218
200318
200418
200517
200618
200719
200821
200923
201024
201126
201225
201326
201429
201534
201637
201739
201842
201942
202042

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 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●

18001850190019502000Juan Bautista Cabrera Ivars, b. 1837Andrés Ivars, b. 1885Klas Ivars, b. 1937Ann-Marie Ivars, b. 1941Juan Soto Ivars, b. 1985Sébastien Ivars, b. 1987Joshua Ivars Medina, b. 1991

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 30 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Ivars
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—7.3K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—7.3K#56
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.8K#1,835
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.8K#1,835
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—473—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—296#3,585
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—260#10,975
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020186#40,051
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961174—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—160#3,954
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991136—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—133#5,748

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia surname 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 · 75 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ivars?
We estimate roughly 3.8 thousand people bear Ivars (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Ivars have the most bearers?
We estimate about 2.8 thousand people bear Ivars in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ivars.
Where is Ivars most common?
Ivars is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 thousand people carrying it.
What does the name Ivars mean?
Recorded meaning: First recorded in 1896. From Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian Ivar, all from Old Norse Ívarr. Akin to English Ivor.
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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, “Ivars”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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