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Ives

Boys' name

Form of Yves

Ives has been given to 89 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 2020, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Ives, 2024

1 in 669,000

Ives over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ives: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Yves

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ives means

Ives is a form of Yves.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ives is used in History (Ecclesiastical).

Meaning behind the documented name family

Ives is a form of Yves. Yves has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Ives is used in Occitan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yves.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 89 boys were recorded with the name Ives between 1919 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2020; its best national rank was #3,939 in 1926.

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 Ives?

Ives 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 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ives 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ives. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ivess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ives was born before 2018 — so the typical Ives is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
78
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Ives 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2020 (8)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,939
1926

Spellings of Ives

Ives is not the most common spelling — Ivan is, with 37.0% against Ives's 0.02%.

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.

Ives around the world

Where Ives 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.

  • France
    1908–1948
    #820
    in 1948

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ives 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
#3,939
1926
Peak year
2020
8 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
89
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ives

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

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Sibling names for Ives

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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