Iver
Iver was given to 66 boys in 2025, #2,170 among boys’ names; 1,789 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Iver and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (57% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Iver by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Iver mean?
Wiktionary, Danish section
Iver is “a male given name, a less common form of Ivar”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Danish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Iver?
#2,170 among boys’ names, 2025
Iver rose from #3,395 in 2015 to #2,170 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 17.2 to 38.6 per million.
86 babies in 2023, the peak
Iver peaked in 2023, when 86 babies were given it (81 boys, #1,935 among boys’ names). The 66 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,170 | 38.6 |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,197 | 38.3 |
| 2023 | 81 | #1,935 | 47.4 |
| 2022 | 66 | #2,203 | 37.8 |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,118 | 38.9 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,159 | 20.9 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,241 | 34.6 |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,091 | 37.4 |
| 2017 | 45 | #2,731 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 48 | #2,600 | 25.3 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #3,395 | 17.2 |
| 2014 | 40 | #2,904 | 20.8 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,440 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,056 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,285 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,262 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,656 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,882 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,103 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,182 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,811 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,046 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,056 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,354 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,548 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,283 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,950 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,639 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,797 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,165 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,245 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,959 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,747 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,165 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,237 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,896 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,097 | 4.3 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,461 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,157 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,497 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,416 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,401 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,742 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,074 | 3.8 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,686 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,077 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,610 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,768 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,204 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,484 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,521 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,689 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,764 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,025 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,805 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,752 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,031 | 11.2 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,511 | 18.1 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,645 | 16.2 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,322 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,368 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,084 | 12.5 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,471 | 9.7 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,859 | 8.1 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,147 | 12.5 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,264 | 11.5 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,366 | 10.9 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,047 | 13.9 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,100 | 13.5 |
| 1927 | 17 | #1,988 | 15.1 |
| 1926 | 19 | #1,819 | 17.1 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,255 | 12.5 |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,551 | 22.1 |
| 1923 | 34 | #1,245 | 31.0 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,321 | 28.5 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,740 | 19.1 |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,791 | 18.8 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,551 | 23.5 |
| 1918 | 34 | #1,203 | 33.5 |
| 1917 | 16 | #1,939 | 17.3 |
| 1916 | 37 | #1,066 | 41.6 |
| 1915 | 29 | #1,230 | 34.2 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,244 | 35.1 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,408 | 29.3 |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,206 | 37.2 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,468 | 31.0 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,500 | 30.9 |
| 1909 | 10 | #983 | 61.0 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,297 | 38.9 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,165 | 45.3 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,018 | 54.6 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,207 | 41.9 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,078 | 48.9 |
| 1898 | 7 | #935 | 57.1 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,016 | 51.8 |
| 1892 | 7 | #904 | 57.4 |
| 1891 | 6 | #902 | 59.3 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,077 | 45.0 |
| 1888 | 6 | #980 | 49.6 |
| 1887 | 6 | #871 | 59.2 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,048 | 43.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Iver a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,789 Americans recorded as Iver, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 66 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Iver: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Iver, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 57% of the 1,789 Americans ever recorded as Iver. The median Iver alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 874 people named Iver (67 women and girls, 807 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 684 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 26 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 82 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 43 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 21 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 126 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 715 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Iver born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 8 | #605 | 4.0× |
| California | 6 | #2,311 | 0.4× |
Where Iver is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Iver is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 4.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Iver with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,166 babies since 1880, Iver is the most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 66 of their 209 babies (32%), the second 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 Iver
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 Iver and names like it
- Compare Iver and IvarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sIver peaked in 2023.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Iver since 1910.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Iver: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Iver.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Iver alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.