Ibis — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ibis

The Social Security Administration has registered 57 babies named Ibis between 1964 and 2010, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ibis currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Ibis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 12 additional births since 1977.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ibis performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 28 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Ibis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ibis in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ibis in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 57 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.