Iverson
#1,413 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Iverson has been given to 2,241 babies in the U.S. since 1891. In 2025 it ranked #1,413 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 140 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.
Babies named Iverson, 2025
1 in 25,700
Iverson over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Iverson over time
In 2025, Iverson went to 7% girls and 93% boys.
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.
How common is Iverson?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 25,700
- 129 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 13,200
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,413
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 17,814 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Iverson sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 17,814 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iverson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Iversons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Iverson was born before 2014 — so the typical Iverson is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 32.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 81.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,911
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 32.7% of all recorded uses (700).
Is Iverson 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
- −57
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +268
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,243
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.80×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 92.1%
- Peak was 2024 (140)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.7% average annual change
Spellings of Iverson
Iverson is not the most common spelling — Vernon is, with 74.7% against Iverson's 1.1%.
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 Iverson is used
Across 2016–2025, Iverson was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 28,816 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 20,000
- 2North Carolina1 in 20,000
- 3Texas1 in 20,000
- 4Arkansas1 in 25,000
- 5California1 in 25,000
- 6Minnesota1 in 25,000
- 7New York1 in 33,333
- 8Tennessee1 in 33,333
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.
Iverson around the world
Where Iverson 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 & Wales2021–2023#4,992in 2023
- France1999–2023#6,715in 2023
- Canada2001–2024#1,964in 2024
- South Australia2006–2009#708in 2009
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.
Iverson by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Iverson
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Iverson
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Iverson, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Iverson
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.