Ivan instance of male given name
Ivan  (Cyrillic: Иван / Іван) is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name Iōánnēs (English: John) from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן Yôḥānnān meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Tsar Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria.
It is very popular in Russia, Ukraine, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Belarus, North Macedonia, and Montenegro and has also become more popular in Romance-speaking countries since the 20th century.Forms
Its female forms are Ivana (West and South Slavic) and Ivanna (East Slavic), while Ivanka and Iva are diminutives by origin. Slavic male diminutives (including historical) are Vanya or Vanja, Ivaniš, Ivanko, Ivanča, Ivanče, etc. A shorter form of the name is Ivo.Notable people
Mononymously known as
Ivan (footballer, born 1984), Brazilian football player
Ivan (footballer, born 1997), Brazilian football player
Ivan (model) (Liera Manuel Ivan, born 1984), Japanese fashion model and musician
Iván (singer) (Juan Carlos Ramos Vaquero, born 1959 or 1962), Spanish singer
Ivan (Belarusian-Russian singer) (Alexander Ivanov), Belarusian-Russian singer
Ivan, German codename of Serbian spy Duško Popov
type of example of manifestation of representation of