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Ivee vs Ivette

American parents have registered 11,185 Ivettes since 1880, against 600 Ivees. Ivette is still ahead, with 89 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ivee against Ivette, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ivee Ivette

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

Ivette has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1945 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Ivee had 43 and Ivette had 62.

Side by side

  Ivee Ivette
Total US births 60011,185
Most in one year 44409
Babies in 2025 3289
Estimated living today 60011,000
Median age today 735
Peak year 20231991
Best rank 3,525th girls568th girls
Rank in 2025 4,352nd2,099th
First recorded 19981945
Girls / boys 600 / 011,175 / 10

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 Ivettes alive today are over 35; half the Ivees are over 7. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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