girls:
46 births since 1901
#5670 (1st percentile)
boys:
840 births since 1896
#3747 (18th percentile)
overall:
886 births since 1896
#6853 (11th percentile)
The name Ivor is the #6,853 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 886 recorded births since 1896. This represents the 11.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,747 (18.2% percentile) for all time with 840 births since 1896. For girls, it ranks #5,670 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 46 births since 1901.
Ivor first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1896 (1896 for boys and 1901 for girls). Birth data for Ivor is available in 91 out of the 128 years between 1896 and 2023 (90 years for boys and 8 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 Ivor has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ivor reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #514) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 53 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ivor ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 9.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ivor reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #601) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 20 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1929.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ivor".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ivor. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.2% confident that Ivor is pronounced as AI-ver, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AI-vor, at 12.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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