Eivor

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Good fortune or island

Eivor has been given to 56 babies in the U.S. since 2021. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2023, with 16 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 77% boys, 23% girls all-time.

Babies named Eivor, 2024

1 in 371,000

Eivor over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Eivor over time

In 2024, Eivor went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

20212024

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Eivor: meaning, origin, and history

Good fortune or island

Old Norse

What Eivor means

Eivor means “good fortune or island”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Eivor is used in Swedish.

Origin, language, and formation

Eivor is used in Swedish. Its origins include Old Norse.

Eivor comes through Old Norse Eyvǫr.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 43 boys were recorded with the name Eivor between 2021 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2023; its best national rank was #5,724 in 2023.

In the United States, 13 girls were recorded with the name Eivor between 2022 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2022; its best national rank was #11,489 in 2022.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Eivor?

Eivor had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 371,000; 9 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 191,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 257,451 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Eivor sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eivor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eivors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eivor was born before 2023 — so the typical Eivor is around 2 today.

Median birth year: 2023; About 2 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 43; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (43).

Is Eivor rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2023 (16)
Years since peak: 2; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 59.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,724; 2023

Spellings of Eivor

Eivor is not the most common spelling — River is, with 57.1% against Eivor's 0.06%.

River57.1%39,676
Ivory12.3%8,568
Ever6.4%4,463
Dior3.1%2,138
Minor2.5%1,728
Iver2.4%1,687
Einar2.2%1,563
Ivar2.1%1,468

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Eivor around the world

Where Eivor ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2021–2023
#4,108
in 2023
France
2021–2023
#5,081
in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Eivor by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,724; 2023
Peak year: 2023; 16 that year
First recorded: 2021
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 43
Count in 2025: Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #11,489; 2022
Peak year: 2022; 8 that year
First recorded: 2022
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 13
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Eivor

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Eivan Eiven Eivin Favor Lavor Navor Halvor Travor Treyvor Davor Javor Ivor Trevvor Treavor Endeavor Trevor

Sibling names for Eivor

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Isha Oaklee Jenesis Kamari Maddie Promise Salem Sariyah

For a brother

Gian Rishi Gray Koen Yael Anakin Mikael Briar

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