girls:
4.3k births since 1883
#2626 (54th percentile)
boys:
1.8k births since 1880
#2937 (36th percentile)
overall:
6.1k births since 1880
#3478 (55th percentile)
The name Ivey is the #3,478 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,074 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 55.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,626 (54.1% percentile) for all time with 4,271 births since 1883. For boys, it ranks #2,937 (35.9% percentile) for all time with 1,803 births since 1880.
Ivey has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1883 for girls). Birth data for Ivey is available in 140 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (130 years for girls and 117 years for boys). 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 Ivey has been given predominantly to girls, with 70.3% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 98.4% of babies named Ivey were girls. Interestingly, until around 1890, the name was more popular for boys (68.6% boys from 1880 to 1889), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (70.5% girls from 1890 to 2023).
For girls, Ivey reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 31.6% percentile (ranked #648) with 178 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 178 births per million (ranked 31.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ivey is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #648 (31.6% percentile) with 178 births per million.
For boys, Ivey reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 6.4% percentile (ranked #484) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 82 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ivey ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 3.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ivey".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Ivey. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Ivey is pronounced as AI-vee, which has 2 syllables.
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