Ivan

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Ivan boys named Ivan

By the numbers

Total US births

150,787

Estimated living today

123,000

Median age today

21

Peak year

2004

Best rank

117th

Rank in 2025

162nd

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

650 / 150,137

How old the living Ivans are

born that year still alive today

Of the 150,787 babies given the name since 1880, about 123,000 are alive — 82 in every hundred. Roughly 50,000 of them are children and 7,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Russian

From Russian Ива́н, and from Ivan in several sla languages.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Ivans

• Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883)Russian writer
• Ivan Bunin (1870–1953)Russian writer and poet
• Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936)Russian physiologist
• Ivan the Terrible (1530–1584)Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584
• Ivan Krylov (1769–1844)Russian writer
• Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891)Russian novelist and official
• Ivan Franko (1856–1916)Ukrainian poet and writer
• Ivan Rakitić (born 1988)Croatian footballer

People named Ivan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Ivan is most common

• CA35,469
• TX18,803
• NY10,054
• IL8,114
• FL5,264
• PA4,565
• AZ4,199
• OH3,780
• MI3,631
• IN2,796

Relative to how many babies each state records, Ivan is most concentrated in Nevada (2.9×), California (2.4×), Arizona (2.3×), New Mexico (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2004

The most popular boys’ names the year Ivan peaked:

• Jacob
• Michael
• Joshua
• Matthew
• Ethan
• Andrew

All the names of 2004

Ivan elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Ivan: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Ivan is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.14% of children were given it – 87 of them.

Ivan: rank by region

In 2025, Ivan was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2020, Ivan was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Ivan was given 2 times or more in 10 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Ivan appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (187th) and Province of Antwerp (341st).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Ivan by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Ivan among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Ivan lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 138,979 men called Ivan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Iva
• Ivanna
• Ivana
• Ivaan
• Ivar
• Ivanka
• Ivah
• Ivania

Ivan against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Ivan vs Iva
• Ivan vs Ivanna
• Ivan vs Ivana
• Ivan vs Ivaan
• Ivan vs Ivar
• Ivan vs Ivanka

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