What does name "Ivanhoe" mean? Is that Celtic? Or what language?

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I found origins for Ivanhoe in Hebrew and Slavic. Both were similar in meaning - "a form of John: Gracious gift from God. Ivanhoe is the medieval variant Sir Walter Scott used for the Saxon hero of 'Ivanhoe.'."

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