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Ivanka

#2,028 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Ivana

Ivanka has been given to 1,359 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #2,028 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 165 recorded.

Babies named Ivanka, 2025

1 in 35,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ivanka: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Ivana

Czech and Hebrew

What Ivanka means

Ivanka is a diminutive of Ivana.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Czech Ivanka (from Ivana + -ka, q.v.). Doublet of Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ivanka (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Ivanka is used in English, Czech and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Czech and Hebrew.

Ivanka comes through Czech Ivanka.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ivana, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette and Jeannine.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Ivanka is pronounced [ˈɪvaŋka].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,359 girls were recorded with the name Ivanka between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 165 in 2017; its best national rank was #1,394 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,844 in 2020 to #2,028 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,023 in 2015 to #2,028 in 2025.

How common is Ivanka?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 35,300
94 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 17,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,028
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,447 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ivanka 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 2025 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,447 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ivanka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ivankas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ivanka was born before 2017 — so the typical Ivanka is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,359
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 51.9% of all recorded uses (705).

Is Ivanka 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
+490
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−184
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,995
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.54×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.0%
Peak was 2017 (165)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,394
2017

Spellings of Ivanka

Ivanka is not the most common spelling — Ivanna is, with 18.3% against Ivanka's 2.4%.

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.

Where Ivanka is used

Across 2016–2025, Ivanka was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 12,399 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 8,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 10,000
  3. 3New York1 in 11,111
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 12,500
  5. 5Texas1 in 12,500
  6. 6Washington1 in 16,667
  7. 7Maryland1 in 33,333
  8. 8Arizona1 in 50,000

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.

Ivanka around the world

Where Ivanka 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
    2016–2024
    #3,696
    in 2024
  • France
    1976–2025
    #5,261
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #1,615
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1960–2000
    #727
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ivanka by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,028
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 184
Best rank ever
#1,394
2017
Peak year
2017
165 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,359
Count in 2025
94

Names similar to Ivanka

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

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Sibling names for Ivanka

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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