Iver

given name · Norwegian Bokmål · Latin script

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

Iver is a given name, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Norwegian Bokmål and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, a less common form of Ivar.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 1.3K◐
  • DKDenmark1 in 19K
  • GEGeorgia1 in 87K

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

≈5.7K ●

across 11 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
56 ●

1.7K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.3K ◐

Norway

Spellings & scripts●

IverLatin · Norwegian Bokmål●15K records
ᲘვერGeorgian · Georgian●115 records

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●

a male given name, a less common form of Ivar

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Iver is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway#2924,204△700 rec.1 in 1.3K15KIver55
US United States—807623 rec.1 in 412K807Iver53
DK Denmark#908316△136 rec.1 in 19K316Iver56
BR Brazil—108—1 in 2M108——
SE Sweden—92△6 rec.1 in 111K92Iver3
ES Spain—61△1 rec.1 in 820K61—1
GE Georgia—4692 rec.1 in 87K46Iver5
CR Costa Rica—42—1 in 121K42——
PH Philippines—3228 rec.——Iver6
NL Netherlands—29—1 in 596K29——
BO Bolivia—2323 rec.——Iver2
EG Egypt—2021 rec.——Iver2

Roughly 4.2K people in Norway bear this name (about 1 in 1.3K). 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●

  • Norwegian Bokmål15K36%
  • Spanish9.8K23%
  • English9.2K21%
  • Danish2.2K5%
  • Norwegian1.4K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Norwegian Bokmål15,40436%
Spanish9,81123%
English9,21621%
Danish2,2455%
Norwegian1,3783%

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◐

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

  • English given name13K records spelled Iver7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Îvër, Ivër

  • Spanish given name12K records spelled Iver7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ivër, Ïver, Îvër, Ïvër, Ivér

  • Ukrainian surname279 records spelled Iver9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, United States

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Івер, Ивер, Ìver

  • French given name271 records spelled Iver3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Norway

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Ïvêr

42 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●

Iver 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, ardency; eagerness; keenness

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

  • In English, A large village and civil parish (served by The Ivers Parish Council) in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in South Bucks district (OS grid ref TQ0381).

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

  • In gml, zeal, eagerness, striving to reach something

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

  • In Swedish, eagerness (fervor or devotion)

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

  • In fro, winter

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

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●

025507510019001950200081 · 2023

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Iver in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1884–2025
Yearrecords
18845
18876
18886
18905
18916
18927
18946
18987
19005
19026
19035
19047
19056
19086
190910
19106
19117
191216
191315
191423
191529
191637
191716
191834
191923
192020
192121
192231
192334
192425
192514
192619
192717
192815
192915
193012
193112
193213
19338
193410
193513
193610
19376
193818
193920
194013
19415
19425
19467
19479
19489
194910
19506
19517
19529
195310
19545
19556
19568
19576
19587
19597
19617
19628
19637
19658
19686
19715
19727
19736
19765
19775
19807
19816
19916
19925
19935
20006
20025
20036
20045
200511
20066
20075
200815
200916
201011
201117
201225
201331
201440
201533
201648
201745
201868
201962
202036
202168
202266
202381
202466
202566

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 102 years between 1884–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

16001700180019002000Iver Rosenkrantz, b. 1674James Iver McKay, b. 1793Iver Holter, b. 1850Carl Hovland, b. 1912Iver Jåks, b. 1932Michael Peterson, b. 1943Iver B. Neumann, b. 1959Jon Iver Helgaker, b. 1978Iver Fossum, b. 1996Iver Skaarseth, b. 1998

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 47 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Iver
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—15K#300
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20254.2K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20244.1K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20233.9K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20223.7K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20213.6K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20203.4K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20193.2K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020807#13,720
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—316#654
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)2025186—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022108—

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 · 616 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Iver?
We estimate roughly 5.7 thousand people bear Iver (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Iver have the most bearers?
We estimate about 4.2 thousand people bear Iver in Norway, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled iver.
Where is Iver most common?
Iver is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is Iver compared with other names?
In Norway, Iver is the 292nd most common given name of 38,312 given names recorded there.
Is Iver a male or female name?
Iver 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 Iver mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name, a less common form of 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, “Iver” — the 292nd most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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