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Ivy
Rank in 2024
#36
Born in 2024
5,323
Peak year
2024 · #36
Origin
English
Also recorded for boys:24 in 2024 (#4,374)
1880 to 2024
RisingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 5,323 girls were named Ivy, about 1 in every 303.
- 2024 is its biggest year on record.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 77,550 girls have been named Ivy since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Ivy per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- 0.5Gen Z1997–12
- 2.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 2,950 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Silent: 1,358 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Boomers: 3,986 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen X: 3,775 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Millennials: 5,768 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Gen Z: 15,467 babies, 0.53 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 42,898 babies, 2.11 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From ivy, the name of a plant. An ivy branch used to be hung outside an establishment to advertise that it sold alcohol, so it may originally been an occupationational surname for the proprietor of such an establishment. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) ==== Proper noun ==== Ivy (plural Ivys or Ivies) A unisex given name from English. A female given name from English; popular in the UK in the beginning of the 20th century. 1882 Something to Read. (Edited by) Edwin John Bret: Something to read novelette.
- A unisex given name from English.
- A female given name from English; popular in the UK in the beginning of the 20th century.
- (rare) A male given name from English.
- (rare) A diminutive of the male given name Ivan.
- Origin
- English
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Ivy, CC BY-SA 4.0.