Popularity
The name is common among Bulgarians (local forms include Jovan, Joan ), Croats, Danes, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Russians, Serbs (it is the first form of the name, and later was replaced by the more Byzantine form Jovan, but lately has reappeared and regained its popularity in Serbian and Macedonian families), Slovenians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians.
Ivan is the most common male name in Bulgaria.
Ivan is the most popular name in Croatia.
Since the 20th century, it has also been used as a popular given name among Italian (both the original form and the italianized version, Ivano), Spanish as (Iván), and Portuguese (sometimes Ivã) speaking peoples.
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“A more problematic example is the parallel between the increasingly abstract and insubstantial picture of the physical universe which modern physics has given us and the popularity of abstract and non-representational forms of art and poetry. In each case the representation of reality is increasingly removed from the picture which is immediately presented to us by our senses.”
—Harvey Brooks (b. 1915)
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—David Mamet (b. 1947)
“The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.... He was fixed in the house of lords, that hospital of incurables, and his retreat to popularity was cut off; for the confidence of the public, when once great and once lost, is never to be regained.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)