girls:
127 births since 1912
#5589 (2nd percentile)
boys:
297 births since 1911
#4289 (6th percentile)
overall:
424 births since 1911
#7315 (5th percentile)
The name Ival is the #7,315 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 424 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 5.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,289 (6.4% percentile) for all time with 297 births since 1911. For girls, it ranks #5,589 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 127 births since 1912.
Ival first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (1911 for boys and 1912 for girls). Birth data for Ival is available in 34 out of the 40 years between 1911 and 1950 (33 years for boys and 18 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ival has been given predominantly to boys, with 70.0% of all recorded births being male. In 1950, 100.0% of babies named Ival were boys.
For boys, Ival reached its peak popularity in 1939, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #510) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 29 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1950.
For girls, Ival reached its peak popularity in 1913, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #475) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 15 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1938.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ival".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ival. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.2% confident that Ival is pronounced as AI-vuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is IH-vuhl, at 19.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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