Iven vs Ivery
American parents have registered 1,302 Iverys since 1880, against 1,134 Ivens. Ivery is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Iven 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 116 years in which either name was published, Ivery for 78 years and Iven for 38 years. The lead changed hands 26 times.
- 1893–1981 Ivery ahead, apart from 5 short spells
- 1993–2019 Iven ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 2020–2022 Ivery ahead
17 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Iven | Ivery | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,134 | 1,302 |
| Most in one year | 26 | 30 |
| Babies in 2025 | 10 | 16 |
| Estimated living today | 720 | 670 |
| Median age today | 19 | 50 |
| Peak year | 2006 | 1919 |
| Best rank | 3,782nd boys | 1,752nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 7,679th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1913 | 1893 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 1,134 | 505 / 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 Ivens are over 19. That is 31 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Iven California (9.9×)
- Ivery Georgia (17.2×)
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: Iven and Ivery.