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Ivana

Ivana reached its high-water mark in 2010 at number 963, and has been recorded 8,042 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,102nd. About 7,900 Ivanas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Ivana

By the numbers

Total US births
8,042
Estimated living today
7,900
Median age today
19
Peak year
2010
Best rank
963rd
Rank in 2025
1,102nd
First recorded
1943

How old the living Ivanas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 8,042 babies given the name since 1943, about 7,900 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 3,700 of them are children and 60 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 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

From various sla languages, such as bg, mk, ru Ивана.

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

Notable Ivanas

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

Where Ivana is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Ivana is most concentrated in Arizona (3.4×), Florida (2.9×), California (2.6×), Texas (2.4×).

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

Names of 2010

The most popular girls’ names the year Ivana peaked:

All the names of 2010

Ivana elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Ivana 2,395 489th
Italy girls Ivana 1,046
England and Wales girls Ivana 532 922nd
Switzerland girls Ivana 473 128th
Norway girls Ivana 307 247th
Belgium girls Ivana 152 523rd
Ireland girls Ivana 29 555th
Poland girls Ivana 10 birth registrations 491st
Scotland girls Ivana 6 611th
Northern Ireland girls Ivana 3 432nd

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.

Ivana: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Ivana 334 0.027% 127th
French girls Switzerland Ivana 108 0.025% 139th
Italian girls Switzerland Ivana 30 0.046% 56th
Romansh girls Switzerland Ivana 1 0.027% 14th

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, Ivana is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.05% of children were given it – 30 of them.

Ivana: rank by region

In 2025, Ivana was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Ivana 656 7

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 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.

Ivana by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 11 402nd

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

Ivana 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.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Ivana 39 59

A count of people on a register – 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 Ivana lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 2,264 women called Ivana were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Castellón/Castelló Ivana 96 0.304 351
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Ivana 98 0.177 595
Cantabria Ivana 51 0.167 495
Zaragoza Ivana 85 0.167 461
Palmas, Las Ivana 87 0.147 708
Valencia/València Ivana 206 0.146 517

Listed in 45 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 7 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Ivana against another name

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

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.