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Irving

Pronounced /ˈɜː.vɪŋ/

Rank in 2024
#1,620
Born in 2024
105
Peak year
1918 · #108
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 105 boys were named Irving, about 1 in every 16,336.
  • It peaked in 1918 with 1,533 babies, ranked #108.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 44,273 boys have been named Irving since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Irving per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 1.3
    Greatest
  2. 0.4
    Silent
  3. 0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 22,411 babies, 1.34 per 1,000. Silent: 7,635 babies, 0.37 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,438 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,575 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,643 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,542 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,357 babies, 0.06 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Variant of the Scottish habitational surname Irvine, probably from a Celtic word cognate with Welsh ir, yr (“fresh”) + afon (“river”).

  • A male given name transferred from the surname, often used by English-speaking Jews to anglicize Israel.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈɜː.vɪŋ/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Irving, CC BY-SA 4.0.