Ivar

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ivar: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ivar: Recorded every year since 1945, it reached #28 in 1949, and it stood at #111 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
92times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#28highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Ivar's record

Ranked every year since 1945, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record
Held a top-100 place for 27 years running. Names by top-100 run

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 2016–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2016	#3079
2017	#1124
2018	#932
2019	#731
2020	#699
2021	#503
2022	#509
2023	#544
2024	#648

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in every year from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #122 among boys in Norway, #478 among boys in Scotland, #648 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #30 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #28 among boys in Norway, in 1949 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #111 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Ivar appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 81 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 7,718 births with the name.

Ivar across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ivar's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#30 (1945)	#28 (1949)	#111 (2025)	81 of 81	7,718 (1945–2025)	317 (1946)
England and Wales · Boys	#3079 (2016)	#503 (2021)	#648 (2024)	9 of 9	438 (2016–2024)	78 (2021)

Ivar by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ivar in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	1,385	5 of 10	277
1950s	2,143	10 of 10	214
1960s	1,617	10 of 10	162
1970s	799	10 of 10	80
1980s	472	10 of 10	47
1990s	426	10 of 10	43
2000s	323	10 of 10	32
2010s	297	10 of 10	30
2020s	256	6 of 10	43

Across Norway · Boys, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 277 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Ivar appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #28 in Norway in 1949.

Ivar's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#648	58	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#544	70	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#509	77	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#503	78	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#699	48	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#731	45	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#932	31	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1124	25	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3079	6	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#111	58	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#122	46	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#136	42	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#136	40	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#144	37	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#143	33	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#160	36	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#167	35	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#170	33	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#178	32	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#236	22	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#191	30	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#174	33	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#190	30	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#206	26	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#241	20	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#193	30	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#200	27	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#175	33	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#200	26	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#198	27	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#170	34	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#163	38	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#180	30	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#150	44	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#174	34	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#147	47	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#154	40	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#139	51	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#173	36	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#164	39	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#145	47	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#143	47	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#147	47	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#184	36	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#181	36	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#192	34	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#131	59	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#200	30	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#177	39	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#156	44	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#163	42	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#132	58	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#159	44	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#124	63	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#132	59	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#121	64	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#116	66	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#140	51	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#109	68	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#114	76	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#110	79	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#101	83	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#103	84	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#84	105	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#73	123	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#63	138	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#61	140	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#69	128	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#54	165	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#50	186	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#50	188	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#53	170	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#50	164	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#47	184	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#54	154	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#46	190	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#48	182	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#43	193	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#41	212	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#41	215	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#41	207	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#39	227	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#36	240	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#35	226	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#33	251	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#28	278	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#33	255	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#30	278	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#29	317	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#30	257	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#657	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#478	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 81 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #28, first reached in 1949.

It held a top-100 place in 27 years, 27 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 317 births, registered in Norway in 1946.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, and 79 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Ivanna · #677, 20y
Ivaylo · #2404, 11y
Iver · #26, 78y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Edel · #31, 81y
May · #24, 81y
Kristina · #33, 76y
Jon · #19, 81y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Britt · #28, 55y
Magne · #28, 81y
Margot · #28, 53y
Mikkel · #28, 70y

Ivar was ranked #28 in Norway · Boys in 1949. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ivar and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ivar without appearing here.

Ivar moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3079 and #3079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #932 and #4749.
Matheo Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3079 and #3079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #1124 and #4812.
Courtney Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3079 and #3079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #932 and #3959.
Daithi Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3079 and #3079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #1124 and #3996.

Moved ahead of Ivar

Tobias Compare
In 1988 they stood at #131 and #162 in Norway · Boys; by 1989 that had become #192 and #99.
Johannes Compare
In 1988 they stood at #131 and #161 in Norway · Boys; by 1989 that had become #192 and #119.
Noah Compare
In 2000 they stood at #174 and #177 in Norway · Boys; by 2001 that had become #150 and #77.
Oskar Compare
In 1994 they stood at #145 and #150 in Norway · Boys; by 1995 that had become #164 and #94.

Moved the opposite way to Ivar

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ivar went from #30 to #111 while Aksel went from #174 to #25.
Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ivar went from #30 to #111 while Alfred went from #127 to #26.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ivar went from #30 to #111 while Arthur went from #153 to #83.
Daniel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ivar went from #30 to #111 while Daniel went from #280 to #66.

Moved the same way as Ivar

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ivar went from #30 to #111 and Anders from #55 to #293.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ivar went from #30 to #111 and Arild from #32 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ivar went from #30 to #111 and Arne from #6 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ivar went from #30 to #111 and Bjørn from #3 to #56.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #28 in Norway in 1949. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ivar

Ivar at a glance

What stands out in Ivar's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ivar across 2 official records

Ivar by decade in Norway · Boys

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Ivar at a glance

What stands out in Ivar's record

Ivar across 2 official records

Ivar by decade in Norway · Boys

Ivar appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Ivar

Ivar and the names beside it

Ivar moved ahead of

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