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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Famous quotes containing the word popularity:
“In everything from athletic ability to popularity to looks, brains, and clothes, children rank themselves against others. At this age [7 and 8], children can tell you with amazing accuracy who has the coolest clothes, who tells the biggest lies, who is the best reader, who runs the fastest, and who is the most popular boy in the third grade.”
—Stanley I. Greenspan (20th century)
“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)
“There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)