Ivo

Latinate form of a medieval name of Old French origin, from Proto-Germanic *īhwaz (“yew, bow”). Name of French and English saints. Cognate with modern French Yves.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪvəʊ/

Ivo

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 1970, John Wain, A Winter in the Hills, Viking Press, page 45:

     It was so farcically alien to be called 'Roger' and 'Furnivall' in a place where everybody had names like Ivo and Gito and Madog.

• Used in medieval England, but rarer as a given name today. Modern American bearers of this name may be of Slavic origin. Also still used to translate the names of pre-modern figures named Yves.

• Ives
• Ivor
• Yvette
• Yvonne

• VOI, Voi, OVI, vio, VoI, ovi-

Cognate to French Yves, and also a variant of Ivan.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪvo]

Ivo m anim

1. a male given name

Short form of Ivar and, less often, of Ivan.

Ivo

1. a male given name

• Aivar, Aivo, Ivar, Ivari

From Ivana (“John”) +‎ -o. Akin to Estonian Ivo.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈiʋo/, [ˈiʋo̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈiʋoi̯/, [ˈiʋo̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -iʋo, -iʋoi̯
• Hyphenation: I‧vo

Ivo

1. a diminutive of the male given name Ivana

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 98

Cognate to English Ivo and French Yves.

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.vo/
• Rhymes: -ivo
• Hyphenation: Ì‧vo

Ivo m

1. a male given name

• Vio, Voi, ovi-, voi

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1962. Shortened from Ivars, also cognate to English Ivo, with ultimately the same Germanic meaning "yew, bow (of yew)".

Ivo m

1. a male given name

• Ivars, Aivars
• Iveta

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviesu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [1] Population Register of Latvia: Ivo was the only given name of 2324 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Two possible origins:

1. Latinate form of a medieval name of Old French origin, from Proto-Germanic *īhwaz (“yew, bow”). Name of French and English saints. Cognate with French Yves.
2. Short form of Ivan. Doublet of João, Ian, Jean, Ruan, and Geovane, all equivalents to English John.

• Rhymes: -ivu
• Hyphenation: I‧vo

Ivo m (plural Ivos, feminine Iva, feminine plural Ivas)

1. a male given name

A hypocoristic form of Ivan.

• IPA^(key): /ǐːʋo/

Ívo m anim (Cyrillic spelling И́во)

1. a male given name

Ivo m pers (diminutive Ivko)

1. a male given name

• “Ivo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025