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Origin of the name IVO.
Etymology of the name IVO.
Meaning of the baby name IVO.

  

IVO.  Pet form of Bulgarian Ivan (q.v.), meaning "Jehovah's gift (or grace)."

IVO.  A form of Ivon/Yvon (q.v.), used by chroniclers, meaning "archer, bowman," from Teutonic iv ("yew"), the wood used to make the weapon.  Usage: England, France, Germany, Great Britain.

... Ivo de Taillebois is the villain of the story of Hereward and his camp of refuge; and the name is common with the Normans and Bretons, all the more for the sake of St. Ivo de Chartres, who was imprisoned for his resistance to the adultery of Philip I. and Bertrade of Anjou, and St. Ives of Brittany, the good lawyer, called the advocate of the poor... (History of Christian Names, Yonge, 1884)

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