Ivar
Ivar, also Iwer is a male first name. Iwer is also a family name.
Origin and Meaning
Ivar is a first name Swedish, Danish, Norwegian origin. It can be a side form of Ingvar.
Dissemination
Ivar is particularly common in Northern Europe.
Bearers of the name
First name
- Ivar Aasen (1813-1896), a self-taught Norwegian linguist and poet
- Ivar Andrésen (1896-1940), Norwegian opera singer
- Ivar Ballangrud (1904-1969), Norwegian speed skater
- Ivar Bern ( born 1967), Norwegian chess players
- Ivar Böhling (1889-1929), Finnish wrestler in the Greco-Roman style
- Ivar Combrinck (1943-2006), German voice actor
- Ivar Asbjørn Følling (1888-1973), Norwegian chemist and physician
- Ivar Giaever ( born 1929 ), Norwegian - American physicist
- Ivar Grünthal (1924-1996), Estonian writer, poet and exiled politicians
- Ivar Hallström (1826-1901), Swedish composer
- Ivar Holmquist (1879-1954), Swedish sports official, the first president of the International Ski Federation ( FIS )
- Ívar Ingimarsson ( b. 1977 ), Icelandic football player
- Ivar Ivask (1927-1992), Estonian poet and literary scholar
- Ivar Jacobson ( born 1939 ), Swedish computer scientist
- Ivar Johansson (1903-1979), Swedish wrestler
- Ivar Kreuger (1880-1932), Swedish industrialist, Match King
- Ivar Lo - Johansson (1901-1990), Swedish author
- Ivar Lykke (1872-1949), Norwegian conservative politician
- Ivar Henning Mankell (1868-1930), Swedish composer
- Ivar Nørgaard (1922-2011), Danish Social Democratic politician
- Ivar Ragnarsson († 872 or 873 ), eldest son of the legendary Norse warrior and hero Ragnar Lodbrok
- Ivar Rooth (1888-1972), Swedish banker
- Ivar Albert Gustaf Sjöberg (1913-2003), Swedish football goalkeeper
- Ivar Slik (* 1993), Dutch cyclist
- Ivar Stukolkin ( b. 1960 ), Soviet swimmer
- Ivar Tengbom (1878-1968), architect, builder of the Hötorget in Stockholm
- Ivar Karl Ugi (1930-2005), German - Estonian chemist
Between Name
- Adolf Ivar Arwidsson (1791-1858), Finnish political journalist, writer and historian
- Nils Ivar Bohlin (1920-2002), Swedish flight engineer and inventor of the three-point seat belt
- Bernt Ivar Eidsvig ( born 1953 ), Norwegian theologian, Catholic priest and Bishop of Oslo
- Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866-1927), Swedish mathematician
- Carl Ivar Hagen ( born 1944 ), Norwegian politician
- Josef Ivar Müller (1892-1969), Swiss choral conductor and composer
Family name
- Stan Ivar ( b. 1943 ), American actor
Others
Other particularly known bearers of the name are the asteroid Ivar and a virtually unchanged since 1975 available shelving system from IKEA.