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Ivery vs Iveth

American parents have registered 1,302 Iverys since 1880, against 790 Iveths. Ivery is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ivery against Iveth, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ivery 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 115 years in which either name was published, Ivery for 80 years and Iveth for 35 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Ivery Iveth
Total US births 1,302790
Most in one year 3036
Babies in 2025 1615
Estimated living today 670780
Median age today 5018
Peak year 19192004
Best rank 1,752nd boys3,898th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked7,133rd
First recorded 18931980
Girls / boys 505 / 797790 / 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 Iverys alive today are over 50; half the Iveths are over 18. That is 32 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: Ivery and Iveth.