Irven
Irven was last recorded in 1996, when 5 babies were given it; 1,086 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Irven by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Irven mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Irven is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Irven?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,571, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1921, the peak
Irven peaked in 1921, when 45 boys were given it, #1,054 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | #9,571 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,733 | 2.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,750 | 2.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,254 | 4.5 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,662 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,729 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,202 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,879 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,294 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,747 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 11 | #2,618 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,482 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,704 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 11 | #2,550 | 5.1 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,557 | 5.2 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,654 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 17 | #1,924 | 8.6 |
| 1952 | 13 | #2,202 | 6.7 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,185 | 6.9 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,264 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,889 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,883 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 22 | #1,624 | 12.0 |
| 1946 | 16 | #1,846 | 9.9 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,479 | 6.7 |
| 1944 | 18 | #1,655 | 13.2 |
| 1943 | 18 | #1,735 | 12.6 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,607 | 6.5 |
| 1941 | 15 | #1,853 | 12.2 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,242 | 9.5 |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,375 | 21.7 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,586 | 17.1 |
| 1937 | 15 | #1,867 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,402 | 22.2 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,082 | 12.5 |
| 1934 | 14 | #1,973 | 13.6 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,616 | 19.2 |
| 1932 | 15 | #1,956 | 14.4 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,375 | 25.0 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,782 | 16.4 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,501 | 22.3 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,402 | 25.3 |
| 1927 | 40 | #1,138 | 35.5 |
| 1926 | 18 | #1,869 | 16.2 |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,267 | 29.6 |
| 1924 | 18 | #1,933 | 15.9 |
| 1923 | 39 | #1,146 | 35.6 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,484 | 23.9 |
| 1921 | 45 | #1,054 | 40.9 |
| 1920 | 38 | #1,168 | 35.7 |
| 1919 | 32 | #1,255 | 32.6 |
| 1918 | 38 | #1,118 | 37.5 |
| 1917 | 24 | #1,459 | 25.9 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,486 | 25.8 |
| 1915 | 31 | #1,170 | 36.5 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,365 | 30.5 |
| 1913 | 23 | #1,063 | 44.9 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,313 | 32.6 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,157 | 46.3 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,142 | 47.7 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,293 | 39.0 |
| 1899 | 7 | #900 | 65.9 |
| 1896 | 7 | #934 | 58.5 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,027 | 51.1 |
| 1892 | 10 | #713 | 81.9 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,103 | 41.4 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,033 | 45.1 |
| 1884 | 8 | #728 | 69.9 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,011 | 44.0 |
| 1880 | 5 | #985 | 45.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Irven a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Irven has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Irven: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Irven, and how old are they?
An estimated 209 Americans named Irven and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (19% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 64 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 360 people named Irven (3 women and girls, 357 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 282 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 41,347 babies since 1880, Irven is the second most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 80 babies recorded by SSA was a Irven (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Irven
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 Irven and names like it
- Compare Irven and IrvinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sIrven peaked in 1921.
- Iowa’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Irven since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Irven.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Irven alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with IMost given first.