Iivo

{{Short description|Male given name}}

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| name = Iivo

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| gender = Male

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| region = Karelia{{Cite book|title= Suuri nimipäiväkalenteri|last=Vilkuna|first=Kustaa|date=1969|page=227|publisher=Otava|location=Helsinki|language=fi}}

| language = Estonian, Finnish, Karelian, Estonian

| origin = Iivari

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| related names = Ivalo, Ivar, Ivari, Iivari, Ivo, Iivi, Iive

| name day = 22 August (both Estonia and Finland){{cite web |title=Estonian Name Days |url=https://www.behindthename.com/namedays/country/estonia |website=Behind the Name |date=2022 |access-date=19 January 2023}}{{cite web |title=Finnish Name Days |url=https://www.behindthename.com/namedays/country/finland |website=Behind the Name |date=2022 |access-date=19 January 2023}}

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Iivo is a predominantly Estonian, Finnish, and Karelian masculine given name.

In both Finnish and Estonian, it is a cognate of Ivo. In Finnish, it is also often a shortened form of Iivari.{{cite web |title=Iivo |url=https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Iivo |website=Nordic Names |date=2022 |access-date=19 January 2023}}

As of 1 January 2023, 27 men in Estonian bear the first name Iivo, making it the 1,292nd most popular male name in the country.{{cite web |title=Iivo |url=https://www.stat.ee/nimed/Iivo |website=Eesti nimide statistika|date=1 January 2023|access-date=19 January 2023|language=et}} In Finland, between the years 2020 and 2022, 379 men were shown to bear the name in the Population Information System.{{cite web |title=Iivo |url=http://verkkopalvelu.vrk.fi/Nimipalvelu/default.asp?L=3 |website=Digital and Population Data and Services Agency |date=16 January 2023|access-date=19 January 2023}}

People named Iivo include:

• Iivo Ahava (1896–1919), Karelian-Finnish military officer and Karelian nationalist
• {{Interlanguage link|Iivo Härkönen|fi}} (1882–1941), Karelian-Finnish writer, teacher and collector of Karelian folklore
• Iivo Hokkanen (born 1985), Finnish ice hockey player
• Iivo Nei (born 1931), Estonian chess master
• Iivo Niskanen (born 1992), Finnish cross-country skier
• Iivo Väänänen (1887–1959), Finnish sport shooter
• {{Interlanguage link|Iivo Wegelius|fi}} (formerly Iivo Järvitalo; born 1971), Finnish ice hockey player and coach