Ivah
Ivah was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,308 among girls’ names; 908 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ivah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ivah?
#11,308 among girls’ names, 2025
Ivah fell from #10,417 in 2015 to #11,308 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 5.0 per million.
28 babies in 1895, the peak
Ivah peaked in 1895, when 28 girls were given it, #568 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,308 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,176 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,657 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,763 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,522 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,246 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,389 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,417 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,625 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,441 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7 | #14,053 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,233 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,479 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,841 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,852 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,966 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,635 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,277 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,489 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,232 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,566 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,415 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,653 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,941 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,647 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,037 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,159 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,792 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,221 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,731 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,314 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,675 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,698 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,725 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 18 | #2,026 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,723 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,953 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,653 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,595 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,571 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,954 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,902 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,139 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 16 | #1,140 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 16 | #1,030 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,390 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,449 | 0.03 |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,191 | 0.04 |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,125 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 12 | #1,075 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 13 | #1,000 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,378 | 0.03 |
| 1901 | 18 | #785 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 13 | #1,078 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 15 | #857 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 18 | #800 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 13 | #912 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 15 | #855 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 28 | #568 | 0.12 |
| 1894 | 15 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1893 | 20 | #650 | 0.09 |
| 1892 | 18 | #698 | 0.08 |
| 1891 | 15 | #709 | 0.08 |
| 1890 | 17 | #654 | 0.09 |
| 1889 | 13 | #739 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 15 | #675 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 14 | #621 | 0.10 |
| 1886 | 7 | #939 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 10 | #711 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 11 | #660 | 0.09 |
| 1883 | 8 | #727 | 0.07 |
| 1882 | 11 | #581 | 0.10 |
| 1881 | 6 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1880 | 6 | #789 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ivah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ivah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ivah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ivah, and how old are they?
An estimated 132 Americans named Ivah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (15% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 4 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 211 people named Ivah (196 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 116 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 136,037 babies since 1880, Ivah is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 5,684 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Ivah
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 Ivah and names like it
- Compare Ivah and IvyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1890sIvah peaked in 1895.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ivah since 1910.
- The top names of 1895The year the most babies were named Ivah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ivah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.