girls:
648 births since 1914
#5068 (11th percentile)
boys:
145.5k births since 1880
#231 (95th percentile)
overall:
146.2k births since 1880
#511 (93rd percentile)
The name Ivan is the #511 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 146,155 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #231 (95.0% percentile) for all time with 145,507 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,068 (11.3% percentile) for all time with 648 births since 1914.
Ivan has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1914 for girls).
The name Ivan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ivan reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 87.5% percentile (ranked #113) with 1,593 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 1,638 births per million (ranked 86.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ivan ranks #150 for boys (83.6% percentile) with 1,302 births per million, which is 79.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ivan reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #847) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ivan".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Ivan", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 22 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Evan" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Evan..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ivan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.0% confident that Ivan is pronounced as AI-vuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EE-vuhn, at 24.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AY1 V AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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