English

Proper noun

Ivo

1. A male given name.
   • 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.

Usage notes

• Used in medieval England, but rare today. Modern American bearers of this name may be of Slavic origin.

Related terms

• Ives
• Ivor
• Yvette
• Yvonne

Translations

Czech

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Ivo m

1. A male given name.

Estonian

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Ivo

1. A male given name

Related terms

• Aivar, Aivo, Ivar, Ivari

Italian

Etymology

Cognate to English Ivo and French Yves.

Proper noun

Ivo m

1. A male given name.

Anagrams

• voi

Latvian

Etymology

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)".

Proper noun

Ivo m

1. A male given name.

Related terms

• Ivars, Aivars
• Iveta

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviesu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, ISBN 5-7966-0278-0
• Population Register of Latvia: Ivo was the only given name of 2324 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

A hypocoristic form of Ivan.

Proper noun

Ívo m

1. A male given name