girls:
12.9k births since 1886
#1374 (76th percentile)
boys:
8.5k births since 1880
#1277 (72nd percentile)
overall:
21.4k births since 1880
#1741 (78th percentile)
The name Ivory is the #1,741 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 21,444 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 77.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,374 (76.0% percentile) for all time with 12,941 births since 1886. For boys, it ranks #1,277 (72.2% percentile) for all time with 8,503 births since 1880.
Ivory has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1886 for girls). Birth data for Ivory is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (141 years for boys and 137 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 Ivory has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (60.3% of all recorded births). In 2023, 95.4% of babies named Ivory were girls. Interestingly, until around 1895, the name was more popular for boys (65.9% boys from 1880 to 1894), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (60.5% girls from 1895 to 2023).
For girls, Ivory reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 52.1% percentile (ranked #459) with 334 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 334 births per million (ranked 52.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ivory is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #461 (51.4% percentile) with 332 births per million.
For boys, Ivory reached its peak popularity in 1950, achieving the 27.4% percentile (ranked #436) with 97 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 174 births per million (ranked 8.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ivory ranks #888 for boys (2.5% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 8.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ivory".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ivory. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.6% confident that Ivory is pronounced as AI-ver-ee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AI-vree, at 17.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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