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Ivaline vs Ivanna

American parents have registered 10,244 Ivannas since 1880, against 8 Ivalines. Ivanna is still ahead, with 530 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ivaline against Ivanna, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ivaline Ivanna

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 56 years in which either name was published, Ivanna for 55 years and Ivaline for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Ivaline Ivanna
Total US births 810,244
Most in one year 8578
Babies in 2025 under 5530
Estimated living today 010,000
Median age today 1009
Peak year 19252017
Best rank 3,664th girls534th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked566th
First recorded 19251954
Girls / boys 8 / 010,244 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ivalines alive today are over 100; half the Ivannas are over 9. That is 91 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ivaline and Ivanna.