Ivery
Feminine
Ivery is given to both — 505 girls and 797 boys since 1880. See Ivery as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Ivery is recorded for boys and girls alike and has two plausible roads behind it: the English word ivory written differently, or a Norman place name that came to England with the Conquest. The word itself has traveled further than either.
How old is the name Ivery?
Ivery first appears in US birth records in 1893 — 132 years ago. The typical Ivery alive today was born around 1955, making them about 70 years old. About 300 people named Ivery are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ivery most popular?
Ivery peaked in 1893, reaching #1277 nationally. Today it ranks #6838, 5,561 places below that high. See the whole 1893 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Ivery
The Latin for ivory is ebur, and the Greek elephas gave Europe its word for the animal. Neither is believed to be native. The best-supported account traces both back to an Egyptian word for the elephant and for the tusk, which passed into the Mediterranean languages along with the material itself, because Egypt was where the trade came through. So a word that sounds thoroughly European is carrying a piece of Egyptian vocabulary that entered Greek and Latin before either had a literature. The trade that brought it has a great deal of blood in it, then and now, and that is worth knowing too. But the word is very old, and it arrived the way words do: attached to a thing that people wanted.
Meaningnot established
Not established
If the name is ivory, it is a material used as a name, which English does often enough. If it is the Norman Ivry, it is a place in France. Nothing in the record distinguishes the two, and the spelling supports both equally.
Pronouncing Ivery
EYE-vuh-ree
Three syllables with the stress in front, said exactly like ivory. The e in the middle is doing nothing audible.
Nicknames for Ivery
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
- 1893
- Most girls named
- 202020 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1277reached in 1893
- Change vs 2024
- +77.8%16 in 2025, from 9
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.
Ivery in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Iverys among us
people named Ivery are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 100,454 born in 2025 was named Ivery
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Ivery sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Ivery beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ivery in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The sound is entirely familiar, so it is never mispronounced by anyone who has heard it.
- Ivy comes off the front as a short form and is thoroughly established on its own.
- It is recorded for boys and for girls, so it leaves a question open rather than closing it.
- Ivory is the expected spelling, and this version will be corrected to it by nearly everyone.
- The material itself carries a heavy association with the killing of elephants, and that is a conversation the name will eventually have.
- No origin is documented, so the meaning question has two answers and no settled one.
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Frequently asked
- How many Iverys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 300 people named Ivery are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Ivery in 2025?
- Ivery ranks #6838 among US girl names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ivery?
- About 1 in every 100,454 US girls born in 2025 was named Ivery — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ivery with classmates?
- Ivery will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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