Ivo
Ivo reached its high-water mark in 1922 at number 1,827, and has been recorded 854 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 7,194th. About 510 Ivos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ivo boys named Ivo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 854
- Estimated living today
- 510
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 1922
- Best rank
- 1,827th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,194th
- First recorded
- 1894
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 849
How old the living Ivos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 854 babies given the name since 1894, about 510 are alive — 60 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 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 Germanic languages
Latinate form of a medieval name of Old French origin, from Proto-Germanic *īhwaz (“yew, bow”). Name of French and English saints. Cognate with modern French Yves.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Ivos
- Ivo Andrić (1892–1975)Yugoslav novelist
- Ivo Josipović (born 1957)Croatian politician, third President of Croatia
- Ivo Sanader (born 1953)Croatian politician, former Prime Minister
- Ivo Ulich (born 1974)Czech businessman, former association football player
- Ivo Viktor (born 1942)Czech footballer
- Ivo Karlović (born 1979)Croatian tennis player
- Ivo Pogorelić (born 1958)Croatian pianist
- Ivo Grbić (born 1996)Croatian footballer
People named Ivo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ivo is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1922
The most popular boys’ names the year Ivo peaked:
Ivo elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Ivo | 731 | 602nd |
| Poland boys | Ivo | 712 birth registrations | 167th |
| Switzerland boys | Ivo | 664 | 224th |
| France boys | Ivo | 335 | 2,722nd |
| Norway boys | Ivo | 333 | 210th |
| Belgium boys | Ivo | 71 | 794th |
| Scotland boys | Ivo | 25 | 478th |
| Ireland boys | Ivo | 12 | 472nd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Ivo | 3 | 375th |
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.
Ivo: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Ivo | 565 | 0.045% | 153rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Ivo | 82 | 0.019% | 226th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Ivo | 16 | 0.025% | 97th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Ivo | 1 | 0.027% | 12th |
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, Ivo is most concentrated in Schwyz, where 0.15% of children were given it – 53 of them.
Ivo: rank by region
In 2024, Ivo was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Ivo | 882 | 5 |
In 2025, Ivo was given 2 times or more in 5 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lubelskie | Ivo | 140 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Ivo | 212 | 3 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Ivo | 136 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Ivo | 248 | 2 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Ivo | 168 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, 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.
Ivo by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 11 | 451st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Ivo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Ivo | 7,012 | 8,619 |
| the Netherlands girls | Ivo | 6 | 88 |
| Finland boys | Ivo | 47 | 60 |
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 Ivo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 777 men called Ivo 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
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Segovia | Ivo | 7 | 0.088 | 706 |
| Barcelona | Ivo | 206 | 0.071 | 883 |
| Lugo | Ivo | 11 | 0.070 | 768 |
| Pontevedra | Ivo | 29 | 0.063 | 780 |
| Girona | Ivo | 26 | 0.062 | 1,044 |
| Burgos | Ivo | 11 | 0.061 | 902 |
Listed in 30 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 22 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
Ivo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.