Ivan
Ivan places #163 across the country in 2025, neither climbing nor fading. First recorded 1880, best year 2004, 150,137 bearers across the whole run.
What Ivan carries
Ivan · Hebrew
“grace of God”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Ivan’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Ivan, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Ivan since 1880
Ivan peaked in 2004 at #117; #163 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Ivan is most common
Ivan is most common in Arizona: 0.33% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. Hawaii (0.31%) and Oregon (0.27%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Ivan
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Isaiah
#57 in 2025 · Hebrew
Isaac
#47 in 2025 · Hebrew
Isabelle
#166 in 2025 · Hebrew
Diego
#158 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jude
#155 in 2025 · Hebrew
Isabel
#177 in 2025 · Hebrew
Molly
#196 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jordan
#131 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Ivan
How common is Ivan today?
Ivan places #163 across the country in 2025, neither climbing nor fading. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What is the recorded meaning of Ivan?
The gloss on record reads “grace of God”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Ivan?
Nearest by the published recipe: Isaiah, Isaac and Isabelle. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
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