Aivars is a
Latvian masculine given name.
It is borne by over 13,000 men in
Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...
[PMLP database] and in 2006 was the sixth most popular man's name in the country.
[Latvijas Institūts website: list of names](_blank)
/ref> Its nameday is celebrated on 29 January.
Its rise to its present popularity began in the late 19th century when it was one of the very many names of Latvian origin either revived or invented during the Latvian National Awakening
The Latvian National Awakening ( lv, latviešu r latvjutautas atmoda) refers to three distinct but ideologically related National revival movements:
* the '' First Awakening'' refers to the national revival led by the Young Latvians from the 1850 ...
. It is a Latvian equivalent of the Old Scandinavian name Ivar
Ivar (Old Norse ''Ívarr'') is a Scandinavian masculine given name. Another variant of the name is Iver, which is more common in Norway.
The Old Norse name has several possible etymologies. In North Germanic phonology, several of the elements c ...
, one of a group of Old Scandinavian names that first occur in Courland
Courland (; lv, Kurzeme; liv, Kurāmō; German and Scandinavian languages: ''Kurland''; la, Curonia/; russian: Курляндия; Estonian: ''Kuramaa''; lt, Kuršas; pl, Kurlandia) is one of the Historical Latvian Lands in western Latvia. ...
between the 6th and 10th centuries, which in the more obviously Scandinavian form Ivars is borne by a further 9,900+ Latvians and in 2006 was the ninth most popular man's name.Aivaras
Aivaras is a Lithuanian masculine given name and may refer to:
*Aivaras Abromavičius
Aivaras Abromavičius ( ua, Айварас Абромавичус, born 21 January 1976) is a Lithuanian-born Ukrainian investment banker and politician. He ...
is a Lithuanian form of Aivars and Ivars.
Aivars can refer to:
* Aivars Aksenoks
Aivars Aksenoks (born 24 May 1961) is a Latvian politician. A founder of the right-wing New Era, Aksenoks has a degree in engineering from the Riga Technical University and was the director of State Road and Traffic Safety Agency from 1992–2002 ...
(born 1961), Latvian politician, mayor of Riga
* Aivars Drupass (1945–1999), Latvian footballer
* Aivars Endziņš (born 1940), Latvian lawyer and politician
* Aivars Gipslis
Aivars Gipslis (February 8, 1937 – April 13, 2000) was a Latvian chess player, writer, and editor, who held the FIDE title of Grandmaster and the ICCF title of Correspondence Chess Grandmaster.
Chess biography
Born in Riga, he was champi ...
(1937–2000), Latvian chess grandmaster
* Aivars Kalējs
Aivars Kalējs (April 22, 1951, Riga, Latvian SSR) is a Latvian composer, organist and pianist.
Career
Aivars Kalējs has written more than 100 opuses of symphonic, organ, piano, chamber and choir music. His works have won several composition ...
(born 1951), Latvian organist, composer and pianist
* Aivars Lazdenieks
Aivars Lazdenieks (born 26 February 1954) is a Latvian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters int ...
(born 1954), Latvian rower and Olympic competitor
* Aivars Leimanis (born 1958), Latvian ballet dancer
* Aivars Lembergs
Aivars Lembergs (born September 26, 1953) is a Latvian politician, oligarch, and convicted money launderer who was the mayor of Ventspils from 1988 to 2021, a mandate from which he has been suspended since 2008. In February 2021, Lembergs was fo ...
(born 1953), Latvian politician and businessman
In fiction
* Aivars Aleksovitch Terekhov, a character in the Honor Harrington
The Honorverse is a military science fiction book series, its two subseries, two prequel series, and anthologies created by David Weber and published by Baen Books. They are centered on the space navy career of the principal protagonist Hono ...
universe
See also
* Ivars
Ivars is a Latvian masculine given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from ...
* Aivis
* Aigars
Aigars is a Latvian masculine given name and may refer to:
* Aigars Apinis (born 1973) Latvian decathlete and Paralympic medalist
* Aigars Cipruss (born 1972) Latvian ice hockey player
*Aigars Fadejevs (born 1975) Latvian track and field athlete a ...
References
Sources
Pilsonības un Migrācijas Lietu Parvalde (Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs): personal name database
* Siliņš, K., 1990: ''Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca''. Rīga: Zinātne.
Latvian masculine given names
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