Icy
Icy was last recorded in 2021, when 8 babies were given it; 1,095 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Icy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Icy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Icy is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Icy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,506, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1899, the peak
Icy peaked in 1899, when 28 girls were given it, #583 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | #11,506 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,569 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,839 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,322 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,736 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,831 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,675 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,603 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,182 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,381 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 6 | #5,291 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,910 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,885 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,510 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,837 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,838 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,950 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,913 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,106 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,631 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,003 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,650 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,525 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,755 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,816 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,798 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,601 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,069 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,336 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,245 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,365 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,520 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 19 | #2,061 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,148 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,664 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,951 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,571 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 28 | #1,594 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,233 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,918 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 27 | #1,541 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,664 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,738 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,905 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,593 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 26 | #1,208 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,493 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,661 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 18 | #1,048 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,464 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,121 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 12 | #1,230 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 23 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 16 | #935 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 23 | #766 | 0.08 |
| 1904 | 17 | #894 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 16 | #876 | 0.06 |
| 1902 | 23 | #725 | 0.09 |
| 1901 | 18 | #784 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 16 | #952 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 28 | #583 | 0.12 |
| 1898 | 24 | #672 | 0.09 |
| 1897 | 14 | #881 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 17 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 13 | #911 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 20 | #673 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 26 | #553 | 0.12 |
| 1892 | 12 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1891 | 13 | #768 | 0.07 |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,047 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 14 | #702 | 0.08 |
| 1888 | 11 | #815 | 0.06 |
| 1887 | 9 | #819 | 0.06 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,030 | 0.04 |
| 1885 | 6 | #977 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 14 | #569 | 0.11 |
| 1883 | 7 | #782 | 0.06 |
| 1882 | 10 | #615 | 0.09 |
| 1881 | 6 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1880 | 5 | #874 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Icy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Icy has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Icy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Icy, and how old are they?
An estimated 124 Americans named Icy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (11% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 67 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 297 people named Icy (282 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 168 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,811 babies since 1880, Icy is the second most given (39% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Icy
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Icy and names like it
- Compare Icy and IcieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1890sIcy peaked in 1899.
- West Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Icy since 1910.
- The top names of 1899The year the most babies were named Icy.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Icy alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with IMost given first.