Iván
Only about 70 men in Poland carry this spelling, so most people here have never met one. It's the Spanish form of the Slavic name behind Iwan, meaning "god is gracious".
Iván Pronunciation
What Iván means
Where Iván comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Iván starts in Slavic ground. The name is the Spanish spelling of Ivan, the Slavic form of John, and behind it stands the Hebrew Yohanan, which means "god is gracious." Slavic speakers did not coin that sense. It reached them through Greek Ioannes and Church Slavonic, and they made the name their own.
The accent mark records a geography. Written Iván, with stress on the second syllable, it belongs to Spanish. A Slavic name crossed into Spanish-speaking countries and picked up a Spanish accent, and today it reads as thoroughly local in Madrid or Havana.
A Polish reader meets a close relative here. The older Polish written form is Iwan, spelled with a w. On a class register the two forms sit only a letter apart, one Slavic and plain, the other marked with a Spanish stroke. The meaning under both is the same: god is gracious.
How many people are named Iván
1 in 304946 men in Poland is named Iván. 70 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4302 among male names.
Iván as a middle name
Iván is a first name for 70 men in Poland and a middle name for another 42, a 63/37 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1220th, between Ifeanyi (42) and Nabil (42).
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#1218 Hùng42
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#1219 Ifeanyi42
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#1220 Iván42
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#1221 Nabil42
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#1222 Paschalis42