Ivery — boys' name

What the Data Says About Ivery

The Social Security Administration has registered 797 babies named Ivery between 1905 and 2016, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ivery currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Ivery is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 489 additional births since 1893.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ivery performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 144 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Ivery shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 20 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Ivery in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ivery 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 797 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.