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Ivan is the East Slavic and South Slavic form of John, ultimately derived from the Hebrew Yohanan, meaning God is gracious. The name became enormously common across Russia, Bulgaria, Serbia, and other Slavic lands, carried by numerous tsars and saints, most notably Ivan the Terrible, the first tsar of Russia. Its widespread use made it virtually synonymous with the Russian people in Western European imagination. Related forms include John in English, Johan and Johannes in Germanic languages, Juan in Spanish, Jean in French, and Iván in Hungarian and Spanish.