Ivey

At the 2020 census, 22,405 Americans bore the surname Ivey — 1,562nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 13,300.

By the numbers

People: 22,405
Rank: 1,562nd
How common: 1 in 13,300
Per 100,000: 7.5

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ivey described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 68.8%
Black, not Hispanic 22.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Ivey

Kay Ivey (born 1944)Governor of Alabama since 2017
Phil Ivey (born 1977)American poker player
Dana Ivey (born 1941)American actress
Jaden Ivey (born 2002)American basketball player
Judith Ivey (born 1951)American actress and theatre director
Royal Ivey (born 1981)American basketball player

People named Ivey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Ivey

Iverson
Ives

Also a first name

Ivey has been given to 6,720 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.