I wonder about the Ukrainian pronunciation? I keep listening to this name's Ukrainian pronunciation on wikitionary and on forvo and it is a more open "v" but still much more of a "v" sound than a "w".The letter "в" is usually more like a "v" in Ukrainian, unless it's at the end or before a consonant, which isn't the case here, so I don't see why it would switch to [w] here.https://forvo.com/search/ivan/uk/ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Іван [noted -ed]