boys:
28 births since 1954
#4558 (1st percentile)
overall:
28 births since 1954
#7711 (0th percentile)
The name Ivars is the #7,711 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 28 recorded births since 1954. This represents the 0.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,558 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 1954.
Ivars first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1954 (first recorded for boys in 1954). Birth data for Ivars is available in 4 out of the 13 years between 1954 and 1966. 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.
For boys, Ivars reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #610) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1954, with 5 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1966.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ivars".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Ivars. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.7% confident that Ivars is pronounced as EE-vahrz, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AI-verz, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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