Ivelisse vs Ivey

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Ivelisse Ivey

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 142 years in which either name was published, Ivey for 130 years and Ivelisse for 12 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

• 1880–1961 Ivey ahead
• 1962–1964 Ivelisse ahead
• 1965–1983 Ivey ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1984–1988 Ivelisse ahead
• 1992–2025 Ivey ahead

6 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Ivelisses alive today are over 35; half the Iveys are over 16. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Ivelisse New York (9.4×), New Jersey (3.8×), Connecticut (3.0×)
• Ivey North Carolina (10.7×), Georgia (8.3×), Alabama (3.7×)

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

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