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Ivelisse vs Ivery

American parents have registered 1,776 Ivelisses since 1880, against 1,302 Iverys. But in 2025 it was Ivery that was commoner, 16 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ivelisse against Ivery, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ivelisse Ivery

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 119 years in which either name was published, Ivelisse for 67 years and Ivery for 52 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Ivelisse Ivery
Total US births 1,7761,302
Most in one year 5130
Babies in 2025 1216
Estimated living today 1,700670
Median age today 3550
Peak year 19881919
Best rank 2,216th girls1,752nd boys
Rank in 2025 8,362ndunranked
First recorded 19521893
Girls / boys 1,776 / 0505 / 797

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 Iverys alive today are over 50; half the Ivelisses are over 35. That is 15 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: Ivelisse and Ivery.