Ivory — #404 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Ivory

The Social Security Administration has registered 13,732 babies named Ivory between 1886 and 2024, spanning 139 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ivory currently holds the #404 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 784 babies received it in a single year. Ivory is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 8,537 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ivory performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,506 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Ivory shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,180 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Ivory in 43 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ivory 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 13,732 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.