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Ivars

Boys' name

Yew, through Ívarr

Ivars has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 1954. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1954, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Ivars, 1966

1 in 695,000

Ivars over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ivars: meaning, origin, and history

Yew, through Ívarr

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ivars means

Ivars belongs to the name family reached through Ivars → Ívarr. Its meaning is “yew”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ivars is used in Latvian.

Ivars comes through sv,da,no Ivar and Old Norse Ívarr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ivor and Ívarr.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 28 boys were recorded with the name Ivars between 1954 and 1966. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1954; its best national rank was #2,521 in 1954.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ivars?

Ivars had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1966, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1966
1 in 695,000
5 of 3,475,564 births
Among boys only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1966
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,817 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ivars sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1966 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 481,817 children born in 1966 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ivars. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ivarss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ivars was born before 1959 — so the typical Ivars is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
57.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
28
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 57.1% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Ivars rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1954 (11)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#2,521
1954

Spellings of Ivars

Ivars is not the most common spelling — Ivan is, with 82.3% against Ivars's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Ivars around the world

Where Ivars ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1949–1982
    #424
    in 1982

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ivars by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,521
1954
Peak year
1954
11 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
1966
All-time count
28
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ivars

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

IvanshIvaanshIvarrIvannIvanoIvanhoeSearsAybarsParsIvanielGunarsIvaanIvalIvarIvaMarsIvandejesusLarsIvan

Sibling names for Ivars

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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