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Ivee vs Iver

American parents have registered 1,789 Ivers since 1880, against 600 Ivees. Iver is still ahead, with 66 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ivee against Iver, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ivee Iver

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 104 years in which either name was published, Iver for 93 years and Ivee for 11 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Ivee Iver
Total US births 6001,789
Most in one year 4486
Babies in 2025 3266
Estimated living today 6001,000
Median age today 77
Peak year 20232023
Best rank 3,525th girls1,928th boys
Rank in 2025 4,352nd2,167th
First recorded 19981884
Girls / boys 600 / 0102 / 1,687

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ivee Iver
England and Wales 23112

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ivee and Iver.