Meaning and history
Newer form of the Old Church Slavic name Іѡаннъ (Ioannŭ), which was derived from Greek Ioannes (see John). It was borne by six Russian rulers, including 15th-century Ivan III the Great and 16th-century Ivan IV the Terrible, the first tsar of Russia, as well as nine emperors of Bulgaria. Other notable bearers include the Russian author Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883), who wrote Fathers and Sons, and the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936), best known for his discovery of the conditioned reflex.
20062006: 3,316 births, rank #127
2007: 3,275 births, rank #127
2008: 3,114 births, rank #132
2009: 2,992 births, rank #136
2010: 2,772 births, rank #144
20112011: 3,114 births, rank #128
2012: 3,233 births, rank #113
2013: 2,859 births, rank #138
2014: 3,079 births, rank #132
2015: 3,047 births, rank #137
20162016: 3,161 births, rank #131
2017: 3,048 births, rank #135
2018: 2,911 births, rank #133
2019: 2,690 births, rank #140
2020: 2,442 births, rank #153
20212021: 2,291 births, rank #168
2022: 2,363 births, rank #159
2023: 2,390 births, rank #153
2024: 2,354 births, rank #153
20252025: 2,240 births, rank #162
Ivan moved from #153 to #163 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2004, with 3,462 births.