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Icy

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Icy has been given to 1,095 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1899, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Icy, 2021

1 in 424,000

Icy over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Icy: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Icy means

Icy is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Icy is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,095 girls were recorded with the name Icy between 1880 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1899; its best national rank was #553 in 1893.

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 Icy?

Icy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 424,000
8 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 205,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
293,719 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Icy sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 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 293,719 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Icy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Icys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Icy was born before 1916 — so the typical Icy is around 109 today.

Median birth year
1916
About 109 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
72
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1920s — 19.4% of all recorded uses (212).

Is Icy 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
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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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1899 (28)
Years since peak
126
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#553
1893

Where Icy is used

Across 1910–2025, Icy was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 577,694 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 100,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in —
  3. 3Kentucky1 in —
  4. 4Louisiana1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Icy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Icy around the world

Where Icy 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
    2010–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Icy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#553
1893
Peak year
1899
28 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
1,095
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Icy

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

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Sibling names for Icy

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

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