Ivery
Masculine
Ivery is given to both — 797 boys and 505 girls since 1880. See Ivery as a girl 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 1905 — 120 years ago. The typical Ivery alive today was born around 1948, making them about 77 years old. About 400 people named Ivery are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ivery most popular?
Ivery peaked in 1906, reaching #1004 nationally. See the whole 1906 chart.
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
- 1905
- Most boys named
- 191919 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1004reached in 1906
- Change vs 2006
- 0.0%5 in 2016, 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.
Iverys among us
people named Ivery 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
Ivery 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
- 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 400 people named Ivery are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Ivery in 2025?
- Ivery is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Ivery with classmates?
- Ivery will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More I names
The most-given names starting with I, all years combined.
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