Icie
Feminine
Icie has two letter i's doing two different jobs. The first is long, as in ice; the second is short, as in the ending of any English pet form. Nothing in the spelling says so, and a reader who gives both the same value produces a name nobody would recognize.
How old is the name Icie?
Icie first appears in US birth records in 1881 — 144 years ago. The typical Icie alive today was born around 1913, making them about 112 years old. About 100 people named Icie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Icie most popular?
Icie peaked in 1897, reaching #509 nationally. See the whole 1897 chart.
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Where it comes from
From An old English word with its own runic character to Icie
Our story of Icie
The word itself is old enough to have its own letter. In the runic alphabets each character had a name, and the one for the i-sound was the word for ice; the rune poems that survive describe each character in a verse, and the verses about this one are the best in the set. The Old English poem calls ice very cold and immeasurably slippery, glistening clear as glass, most like to gems, a floor wrought by the frost. The Norwegian poem is blunter and better: ice, it says, is the broad bridge — and adds that the blind man must be led. A whole winter's danger and a whole winter's convenience in nine words.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The source cannot be established. It may be the English word with a pet ending, it may be a shortening of a longer name, and it may be a spelling of initials, all of which were ordinary practice in the American South when this name appears. Nothing in the record distinguishes them, and the word reading is only the most obvious of the three.
How the name formed
- An old English word with its own runic character
- American families using short word names freely
- A pet ending attached to it
- Icie in the registers before 1900
Pronouncing Icie
EYE-see
Two syllables, stress on the first. The two i's carry different values, which is ordinary in English and invisible on the page: a reader has to know the word to know the name.
Nicknames for Icie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1881
- Most girls named
- 191542 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #509reached in 1897
- Change vs 2004
- 0.0%5 in 2010, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Icies among us
people named Icie are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Icie sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is short, clear and cannot be mispronounced once heard.
- It carries a concrete English word with a very long history.
- It is genuinely rare while being made of the simplest material.
- It will be read as the weather word, because it is the weather word.
- No source can be given, and three explanations are equally likely.
- It is firmly of the nineteenth century in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Icies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 100 people named Icie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Icie in 2025?
- Icie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Icie with classmates?
- Icie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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