Ivor
Ivor was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,880 among boys’ names; 909 Americans have been recorded with it since 1896 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ivor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ivor mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ivor is “a male given name from Old Norse.”
Medieval form of Old Norse Ívarr. Doublet of Igor.
/ˈaɪvə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ivor?
#7,880 among boys’ names, 2025
Ivor rose from #9,962 in 2015 to #7,880 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 5.9 per million.
29 babies in 1918, the peak
Ivor peaked in 1918, when 29 babies were given it (22 boys, #1,627 among boys’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,880 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,295 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,501 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,277 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,811 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,320 | 5.2 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,822 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,902 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,256 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,962 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #9,101 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,064 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,079 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,267 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,301 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,464 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,116 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,475 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,565 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,249 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,736 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,579 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,585 | 2.6 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,713 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,398 | 2.5 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,524 | 7.1 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,732 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,684 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,826 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,448 | 2.9 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,064 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,351 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,309 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,666 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,239 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,036 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,173 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,984 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,362 | 3.9 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,948 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,813 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 14 | #2,229 | 6.8 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,199 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,921 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,708 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,743 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,347 | 3.3 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,656 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,798 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,769 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,952 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,149 | 7.3 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,696 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,690 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,985 | 2.7 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,026 | 4.3 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,317 | 7.4 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,538 | 6.6 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,222 | 8.4 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,090 | 9.4 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,562 | 7.3 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,400 | 8.6 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,004 | 11.7 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,335 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,122 | 11.6 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,453 | 9.6 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,472 | 9.7 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,957 | 14.1 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,148 | 12.5 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,157 | 12.5 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,879 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,255 | 12.1 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,572 | 9.9 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,465 | 10.6 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,250 | 12.6 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,840 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 19 | #1,867 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,277 | 12.8 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,406 | 11.9 |
| 1921 | 18 | #1,943 | 16.3 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,673 | 10.3 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,665 | 21.4 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,627 | 21.7 |
| 1917 | 17 | #1,863 | 18.4 |
| 1916 | 16 | #1,893 | 18.0 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,239 | 14.1 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,536 | 12.2 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,040 | 9.8 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,141 | 16.3 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,501 | 30.9 |
| 1902 | 7 | #976 | 57.1 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,177 | 41.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ivor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 909 Americans recorded as Ivor, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 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 Ivor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ivor, and how old are they?
An estimated 413 Americans named Ivor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 12 and 66. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 979 people named Ivor (39 women and girls, 940 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 399 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,166 babies since 1880, Ivor is the third most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 209 babies (4.8%), again the third most given.
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 Ivor
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 Ivor and names like it
- Compare Ivor and IverBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sIvor peaked in 1918.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ivor since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Ivor.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ivor alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.