Given name & surname · also Swedish
Iivari
“yew warrior”
Iivari is a masculine given name from Old Swedish (ultimately Old Norse), meaning “yew warrior.” It is used in Finnish.
Original Old NorseÍvarr
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Iivari comes from Old Swedish, and ultimately from Old Norse.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Iivari developed from Ívarr.
Iivari’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Iivari shares a linguistic root with the English form Ivor. In Finnish usage, Iivari has a conventional equivalent in the English form Ivor. In Finnish usage, Iivari developed from the Old Norse form Ívarr.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Iivari
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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