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Ivelisse vs Iveth

American parents have registered 1,776 Ivelisses since 1880, against 790 Iveths. But in 2025 it was Iveth that was commoner, 15 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ivelisse Iveth

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 73 years in which either name was published, Ivelisse for 59 years and Iveth for 14 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Ivelisse Iveth
Total US births 1,776790
Most in one year 5136
Babies in 2025 1215
Estimated living today 1,700780
Median age today 3518
Peak year 19882004
Best rank 2,216th girls3,898th girls
Rank in 2025 8,362nd7,133rd
First recorded 19521980
Girls / boys 1,776 / 0790 / 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 Ivelisses alive today are over 35; half the Iveths are over 18. That is 17 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 Iveth.