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Iverson vs Ivett

American parents have registered 2,241 Iversons since 1880, against 702 Ivetts. Iverson is still ahead, with 139 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Iverson against Ivett, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Iverson Ivett

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 94 years in which either name was published, Iverson for 63 years and Ivett for 31 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Iverson Ivett
Total US births 2,241702
Most in one year 14926
Babies in 2025 1396
Estimated living today 2,000690
Median age today 825
Peak year 20242001
Best rank 1,355th boys4,564th girls
Rank in 2025 1,409th13,208th
First recorded 18911966
Girls / boys 103 / 2,138702 / 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 Ivetts alive today are over 25; half the Iversons are over 8. 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: Iverson and Ivett.