Ivey — #788 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Ivey

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,633 babies named Ivey between 1883 and 2024, spanning 142 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ivey currently holds the #788 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 356 babies received it in a single year. Ivey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,803 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ivey performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 1,140 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Ivey shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 582 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Ivey in 25 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ivey 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 4,633 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.