Given name & surname · also Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian
Ivars
Ivars is a masculine given name from Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian, ultimately from Old Norse. It is used in Latvian.
Original Old NorseÍvarr
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Ivars comes from Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian, and ultimately from Old Norse.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Latvian usage, Ivars developed from Ívarr.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1954. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ivars through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 28
- 28 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1954
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1966. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 1954. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 187 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ivars’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Ivars shares a linguistic root with the English form Ivor. In Latvian usage, Ivars has a related form in AIVARS. In Latvian usage, Ivars has a conventional equivalent in the English form Ivor.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ivars
- Ivars Godmanis1st Prime Minister of Latvia (born 1951)
- Ivars KalniņšLatvian actor (born 1948)
- Ivars IjabsLatvian politician, musician (born 1972)
- Ivars PunnenovsLatvian ice hockey playerborn 1994
- Ivars TimermanisLatvian basketball player (born 1982)
- Ivars ZariņšLatvian politician (born 1969)
- Ivars KnētsLatvian scientist (1938-2019)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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