Ive — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ive

The Social Security Administration has registered 33 babies named Ive between 1919 and 1998, spanning 80 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ive currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1932, when 7 babies received it in a single year. Ive is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 9 additional births since 1921.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ive performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 12 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Ive shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ive 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 33 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.