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Ivery vs Ivette

American parents have registered 11,185 Ivettes since 1880, against 1,302 Iverys. Ivette is still ahead, with 89 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ivery against Ivette, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ivery Ivette

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 119 years in which either name was published, Ivette for 75 years and Ivery for 44 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Ivery Ivette
Total US births 1,30211,185
Most in one year 30409
Babies in 2025 1689
Estimated living today 67011,000
Median age today 5035
Peak year 19191991
Best rank 1,752nd boys568th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,099th
First recorded 18931945
Girls / boys 505 / 79711,175 / 10

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 Ivettes are over 35. That is 15 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 Ivette.