Ivey
Feminine · “the ivy plant”
Ivey is given to both — 4,917 girls and 1,803 boys since 1880. See Ivey as a boy nameSee other names given to both
This name is climbing right now, and it is climbing for a reason that has nothing to do with it individually. The plant names have come back — Willow, Hazel, Juniper, Olive, Fern — and Ivy came with them, and the surname spelling has been carried up on the same wave.
How old is the name Ivey?
Ivey first appears in US birth records in 1883 — 142 years ago. The typical Ivey alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 4,300 people named Ivey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ivey most popular?
Ivey peaked in 2024, reaching #787 nationally. Today it ranks #925, 138 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
Where it comes from
From ifig to Ivey
The story of Ivey
Before it was a Christmas decoration it was a pub sign. A bush or a bundle of ivy hung outside a building advertised that wine was sold there, a convention going back to Roman practice and lasting into early modern England — which is where the proverb about good wine needing no bush comes from. The plant was sacred to the god of wine, and the association survived the religion by more than a thousand years. A leaf that now means winter and holly and church decoration meant, for most of its history, that the place in front of you was serving drink.
Meaning
the ivy plant
The English word for the climbing plant, used as a name. This spelling also exists as a surname of separate origin, so a family may have arrived at it from either direction.
How the name formed
- ifig
- Ivy
- Ivey
Pronouncing Ivey
EYE-vee
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The -ey and the -y are said identically; the difference marks a surname rather than a sound.
Nicknames for Ivey
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
- 1883
- Most girls named
- 2025282 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #787reached in 2024
- Change vs 2022
- +52.4%282 in 2025, from 185
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.
Ivey in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia, North Carolina, Texas.
Iveys among us
people named Ivey are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 5,700 born in 2025 was named Ivey
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Stasia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ivey's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Stasia climbed just as high around 1916, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Stasia's path sketches the road Ivey is walking now.
Ivey is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Ivey is headed
Ivey looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 56% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Ivey beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ivey in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is concrete, green and needs no explaining.
- It is short and the sound is completely settled.
- The spelling reads as a surname, which suits current taste.
- It is rising quickly, so a child is increasingly likely to meet others.
- Ivy is far commoner and the spelling gets corrected.
- The record holds a few boys as well, and the boy is much the smaller side.
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Feminine · #925 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Iveys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,300 people named Ivey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Ivey in 2025?
- Ivey ranks #925 among US girl names in 2025, with 282 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ivey?
- About 1 in every 5,700 US girls born in 2025 was named Ivey — 282 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ivey with classmates?
- Ivey will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Ivey
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Elisabeth#925 · Maddie#925 · Clare#924 · Brittany#928 · Winifred#922 · Emberlynn#928 · Emmeline#922 · Etta#928
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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