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.

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.

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

• Ives
• Ivor
• Yvette
• Yvonne

• ovi-

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪvo]

Ivo m

1. A male given name.

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

Ivo

1. A male given name

• Aivar, Aivo, Ivar, Ivari

Cognate to English Ivo and French Yves.

Ivo m

1. A male given name.

• 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
• Population Register of Latvia: Ivo was the only given name of 2324 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

A hypocoristic form of Ivan.

Ívo m

1. A male given name