Ivori
Feminine · “ivory”
Ivori is ivory respelled, and the word has an unusually long passport. English got it from French, French from Latin, and Latin took it from Egyptian — where abu meant both the elephant and the material.
How old is the name Ivori?
Ivori first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Ivori is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Ivori are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ivori most popular?
Ivori peaked in 2025, reaching #2933 nationally. Today it ranks #2933, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From abu to Ivori
The story of Ivori
Ivory was a luxury material traded from Africa and India into the Mediterranean for thousands of years, and the word traveled with the goods. It became an English color word as well as a material, and both senses are live. As a given name Ivory has an American record going back well over a century, used for daughters and, earlier, for sons; it has been particularly at home in African-American families. The Ivori spelling belongs to the recent wave of -i endings and reaches the record in the last two decades.
Meaning
ivory
English ivory comes from Old French ivurie, from Latin eboreus, from ebur, 'ivory'. Latin is generally held to have taken ebur from Egyptian abu, which named the elephant and the tusk together — the same word behind the name of Elephantine island in the Nile. The reading is documented; the i ending here is a modern American respelling.
How the name formed
- abu
- ebur
- ivurie
- ivory
- Ivori
Related forms: Ivory · Ivoire
Pronouncing Ivori
EYE-vuh-ree
Three syllables, stress on the first, said exactly as the ordinary word. The i ending changes the spelling and nothing you can hear.
Nicknames for Ivori
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
- 1976
- Most girls named
- 202557 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2933reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +58.3%57 in 2025, from 36
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.
Ivori in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ivory in English — spelling variant
- Ivoire in French — related form
Ivoris among us
people named Ivori are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 28,198 born in 2025 was named Ivori
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Ivori
- #2933
- Ivori on the 2025 chart
- #355
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Ivori went to 57 girls in 2025, but Ivory is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 867, which makes it the 355th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,578 places above the chart.
- Ivory810
- Ivori57
About 1 girl in 1,854 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 28,198 for Ivori itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Carlina test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ivori's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Carlina climbed just as high around 1976, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Carlina's path sketches the road Ivori is walking now.
Ivori 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
Where Ivori is headed
Ivori looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 19% 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.
Ivori beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ivori in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Said correctly by every English speaker without being told.
- Ivy is a ready short form and a very well established name of its own.
- A documented word with an unusually long and traceable history behind it.
- Ivory is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected in writing for life.
- The ivory trade is a difficult association for some people and will come up.
- Word-names date visibly to the period that made them fashionable.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ivoris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Ivori are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Ivori?
- Ivori is one of 2 recorded spellings. Ivory is the more common one — 810 births in 2025 against 57 for Ivori.
- How popular is the name Ivori in 2025?
- Ivori ranks #2933 among US girl names in 2025, with 57 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ivori?
- About 1 in every 28,198 US girls born in 2025 was named Ivori — 57 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ivori with classmates?
- Ivori will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Ivori
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