Ivy Forename
3,700th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 284,346 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Philippines
Highest density in:
Micronesia
Ivy Forename Definition:
A female name. a late 19th-C invention. A writer in Notes and Queries, 1904 mentions it as one of the plant and flower names then gaining popularity.
Ivy Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 98% | 64,470 | 1:1,644 | 345 |
| United States | 93% | 29,582 | 1:12,255 | 1,222 |
| England | 100% | 28,768 | 1:1,933 | 332 |
| Kenya | 100% | 27,082 | 1:1,710 | 326 |
| Malawi | 100% | 24,960 | 1:686 | 152 |
| Ghana | 100% | 22,306 | 1:1,210 | 245 |
| South Africa | 100% | 17,446 | 1:3,126 | 587 |
| Zambia | - | 10,991 | 1:1,443 | 297 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 7,929 | 1:1,945 | 356 |
| Jamaica | - | 7,324 | 1:394 | 64 |
| Canada | 100% | 5,281 | 1:6,274 | 896 |
| China | - | 4,457 | 1:306,497 | 20,961 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 4,042 | 1:7,533 | 878 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 3,849 | 1:41,429 | 3,785 |
| India | 100% | 2,264 | 1:536,607 | 42,186 |
| Brazil | 100% | 2,209 | 1:96,983 | 5,468 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1,982 | 1:15,546 | 2,113 |
| Wales | 100% | 1,317 | 1:2,350 | 398 |
| Hong Kong | - | 1,240 | 1:6,252 | 507 |
| Singapore | 99% | 1,210 | 1:5,196 | 910 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 1,158 | 1:153,337 | 7,325 |
| Micronesia | - | 932 | 1:114 | 28 |
| Australia | - | 863 | 1:15,826 | 1,219 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 735 | 1:22,996 | 2,095 |
| Botswana | 100% | 712 | 1:3,068 | 539 |
| Scotland | 100% | 622 | 1:8,602 | 645 |
| New Zealand | - | 605 | 1:7,498 | 894 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 576 | 1:447,854 | 34,829 |
| Namibia | - | 416 | 1:5,779 | 818 |
| Papua New Guinea | 99% | 379 | 1:21,510 | 2,148 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 360 | 1:3,782 | 706 |
| Mauritius | - | 348 | 1:3,729 | 647 |
| Bahamas | - | 331 | 1:1,207 | 295 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 331 | 1:71,812 | 9,615 |
| Egypt | 100% | 325 | 1:282,772 | 9,197 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 318 | 1:11,164 | 701 |
| Mexico | 98% | 298 | 1:416,592 | 5,116 |
| Peru | 100% | 296 | 1:107,404 | 3,740 |
| Qatar | 100% | 289 | 1:8,199 | 1,327 |
| Poland | 100% | 283 | 1:134,371 | 2,707 |
| Guyana | 100% | 282 | 1:2,707 | 534 |
| Suriname | 100% | 263 | 1:2,102 | 491 |
| Thailand | 100% | 255 | 1:274,768 | 16,066 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 248 | 1:28,839 | 2,823 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 241 | 1:646 | 210 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 228 | 1:2,548 | 410 |
| Kuwait | - | 180 | 1:21,029 | 2,270 |
| Barbados | - | 171 | 1:1,695 | 384 |
| Swaziland | - | 154 | 1:8,443 | 1,221 |
| Germany | 100% | 140 | 1:690,556 | 6,359 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 131 | 1:14,070 | 874 |
| Panama | 100% | 125 | 1:31,252 | 2,564 |
| Chile | 93% | 122 | 1:144,321 | 3,111 |
| Brunei | - | 119 | 1:3,526 | 356 |
| Bahrain | - | 118 | 1:11,429 | 1,802 |
| Fiji | - | 115 | 1:7,760 | 1,571 |
| Belgium | 100% | 113 | 1:101,682 | 3,484 |
| Uganda | 96% | 113 | 1:362,451 | 9,698 |
| Sweden | 100% | 106 | 1:92,999 | 4,091 |
| Ireland | 100% | 101 | 1:45,975 | 1,556 |
| Israel | 64% | 97 | 1:86,628 | 4,034 |
| Belize | 100% | 94 | 1:3,769 | 826 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 93 | 1:324,752 | 10,006 |
| Cameroon | - | 92 | 1:234,897 | 9,508 |
| Honduras | 100% | 91 | 1:96,895 | 3,179 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 91 | 1:1,017,836 | 2,659 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 86 | 1:121,294 | 5,870 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 76 | 1:694,583 | 17,085 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 66 | 1:1,663 | 337 |
| Liberia | 89% | 64 | 1:68,938 | 3,318 |
| Jersey | - | 62 | 1:1,613 | 326 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 61 | 1:1,629 | 348 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 60 | 1:1,860 | 354 |
| France | 96% | 57 | 1:1,166,146 | 8,576 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 56 | 1:287,651 | 3,507 |
| Norway | 100% | 52 | 1:98,699 | 3,209 |
| Spain | 100% | 48 | 1:969,374 | 8,577 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 100% | 47 | 1:738 | 158 |
| Colombia | 100% | 45 | 1:1,061,754 | 11,798 |
| Italy | 95% | 40 | 1:1,526,552 | 11,670 |
| South Korea | 100% | 40 | 1:138,611 | 6,160 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 39 | 1:122,255 | 3,564 |
| El Salvador | - | 37 | 1:171,400 | 2,675 |
| Macau | - | 35 | 1:17,377 | 339 |
| Argentina | 100% | 34 | 1:1,258,037 | 5,872 |
| DR Congo | 67% | 34 | 1:2,171,400 | 51,388 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 34 | 1:1,614 | 377 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 31 | 1:1,977 | 447 |
| British Virgin Islands | 100% | 29 | 1:1,078 | 245 |
| Ecuador | - | 29 | 1:611,273 | 5,978 |
| Japan | - | 28 | 1:4,570,931 | 26,844 |
| Lesotho | 95% | 28 | 1:72,857 | 6,868 |
| Portugal | - | 28 | 1:371,817 | 6,212 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 27 | 1:304,204 | 5,947 |
| Saint Lucia | 95% | 26 | 1:6,839 | 1,067 |
| Malta | - | 23 | 1:18,668 | 1,434 |
| Grenada | 100% | 21 | 1:5,149 | 844 |
| Guam | - | 21 | 1:7,650 | 1,166 |
| Nicaragua | 91% | 20 | 1:300,917 | 6,429 |
| Aruba | - | 17 | 1:6,105 | 1,121 |
| Iraq | - | 14 | 1:2,501,276 | 13,388 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 12 | 1:285,636 | 4,451 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 11 | 1:1,205 | 212 |
| Russia | 50% | 11 | 1:13,112,155 | 45,377 |
| American Samoa | - | 9 | 1:6,205 | 1,322 |
| Congo | 50% | 9 | 1:556,578 | 9,819 |
| Denmark | - | 9 | 1:627,722 | 8,968 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 9 | 1:648 | 154 |
| Czechia | 100% | 5 | 1:2,131,232 | 5,044 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 5 | 1:9,825 | 1,060 |
| Finland | 67% | 5 | 1:1,096,637 | 9,775 |
| Greece | - | 4 | 1:2,733,637 | 12,935 |
| Madagascar | - | 4 | 1:5,907,352 | 4,093 |
| Mozambique | - | 4 | 1:6,810,839 | 3,114 |
| New Caledonia | - | 4 | 1:67,541 | 2,087 |
| Seychelles | - | 4 | 1:23,168 | 1,192 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 4 | 1:5,199,772 | 10,550 |
| Sudan | - | 4 | 1:9,451,744 | 6,661 |
| Afghanistan | - | 3 | 1:10,874,505 | 40,253 |
| Croatia | - | 3 | 1:1,405,692 | 11,430 |
| Dominica | - | 3 | 1:25,157 | 718 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 3 | 1:17,077 | 2,297 |
| Oman | - | 3 | 1:1,369,556 | 7,879 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 3 | 1:64,785,893 | 186,184 |
| Romania | - | 3 | 1:6,683,992 | 44,661 |
| Haiti | - | 2 | 1:5,363,476 | 32,317 |
| Luxembourg | - | 2 | 1:282,024 | 3,520 |
| Nauru | 100% | 2 | 1:5,964 | 459 |
| Yemen | - | 2 | 1:13,148,376 | 10,677 |
| Albania | - | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Belarus | 50% | 1 | 1:9,482,384 | 20,892 |
| Bermuda | - | 1 | 1:64,826 | 2,481 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
| Cuba | - | 1 | 1:11,506,552 | 13,531 |
| Cyprus | - | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Hungary | 99% | 1 | 1:9,791,771 | 6,528 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Ivory Coast | - | 1 | 1:23,075,933 | 135,227 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Mauritania | - | 1 | 1:4,095,239 | 27,701 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Monaco | - | 1 | 1:38,466 | 2,379 |
| Montserrat | - | 1 | 1:4,876 | 752 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| Samoa | - | 1 | 1:195,190 | 1,348 |
| Somalia | - | 1 | 1:13,525,867 | 7,760 |
| Syria | - | 1 | 1:19,306,075 | 9,560 |
| Turkey | - | 1 | 1:77,801,709 | 91,051 |
Ivy (22,421) may also be a surname.
Ivy Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. a late 19th-C invention. A writer in Notes and Queries, 1904 mentions it as one of the plant and flower names then gaining popularity.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
F. In Teutonic, ‘clinging,’ it is obviously from the plant. Cf. Hazel.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A Teutonic name, meaning: A clinging vine.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Ivy Forename Popularity
Ivy Demographics
Ivy Political Affiliation
in United States
Sample size: 5,225 (2014)
United States
Average
Phonetically Similar Names
| Forename | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivey | 86 | 4,537 | / |
| Aivy | 86 | 2,471 | / |
| Ivys | 86 | 354 | / |
| Eivy | 86 | 301 | / |
| Jivy | 86 | 148 | / |
| Ivay | 86 | 140 | / |
| Givy | 86 | 86 | / |
| Isvy | 86 | 71 | / |
| Hivy | 86 | 60 | / |
| Ivoy | 86 | 48 | / |
| Ivhy | 86 | 22 | / |
| Yivy | 86 | 17 | / |
| Ihvy | 86 | 14 | / |
| Iviy | 86 | 10 | / |
| Ivyy | 86 | 6 | / |
| Ivyh | 86 | 6 | / |
| Ivyz | 86 | 5 | / |
| Ivyt | 86 | 3 | / |
| Ivyi | 86 | 2 | / |
| Oivy | 86 | 2 | / |
| Itvy | 86 | 1 | / |
| I'vy | 86 | 1 | / |
| Ivuy | 86 | 1 | / |
| Ivyd | 86 | 1 | / |
| Iovy | 86 | 1 | / |
| Ivaya | 75 | 443 | / |
| Aivey | 75 | 85 | / |
| Ivahy | 75 | 78 | / |
| Haivy | 75 | 53 | / |
| Heivy | 75 | 53 | / |
| Jivay | 75 | 46 | / |
| Jivey | 75 | 31 | / |
| Eivys | 75 | 25 | / |
| Uivay | 75 | 22 | / |
| Givey | 75 | 17 | / |
| Hivey | 75 | 13 | / |
| Hivys | 75 | 10 | / |
| Iveys | 75 | 9 | / |
| Jiviy | 75 | 9 | / |
| Aivys | 75 | 9 | / |
| Hivay | 75 | 7 | / |
| Jisvy | 75 | 5 | / |
| Eivay | 75 | 4 | / |
| Hiviy | 75 | 4 | / |
| Isvay | 75 | 4 | / |
| Jivys | 75 | 4 | / |
| Iveey | 75 | 4 | / |
| Jivoy | 75 | 2 | / |
| Ivyth | 75 | 2 | / |
| Issvy | 75 | 2 | / |
| Isvey | 75 | 2 | / |
| Yisvy | 75 | 2 | / |
| Aivhy | 75 | 2 | / |
| Eivey | 75 | 2 | / |
| Eijvy | 75 | 2 | / |
| Giviy | 75 | 2 | / |
| Ivohy | 75 | 2 | / |
| D'Ivy | 75 | 1 | / |
| Aaivy | 75 | 1 | / |
| Aivoy | 75 | 1 | / |
| Isviy | 75 | 1 | / |
| Isvyt | 75 | 1 | / |
| Ishvy | 75 | 1 | / |
| Ivayh | 75 | 1 | / |
| Ivhey | 75 | 1 | / |
| Ivyss | 75 | 1 | / |
| Ivych | 75 | 1 | / |
| Ihvey | 75 | 1 | / |
| Uivys | 75 | 1 | / |
| Ivyph | 75 | 1 | / |
| Iwuvy | 75 | 1 | / |
| Iauvy | 75 | 1 | / |
| Aivyt | 75 | 1 | / |
| Aivyz | 75 | 1 | / |
| Eivuy | 75 | 1 | / |
| Eivyd | 75 | 1 | / |
| Iva | 67 | 161,573 | / |
| Evy | 67 | 34,557 | / |
| Ive | 67 | 11,181 | / |
| Ivi | 67 | 5,316 | / |
| Aivaya | 67 | 4,270 | / |
| Iby | 67 | 768 | / |
| Yvy | 67 | 238 | / |
| Iwy | 67 | 51 | / |
| Jvy | 67 | 32 | / |
| Jivaya | 67 | 14 | / |
| Heivys | 67 | 9 | / |
| Haivys | 67 | 8 | / |
| Aisvay | 67 | 6 | / |
| Ivj | 67 | 6 | / |
| Ishvay | 67 | 4 | / |
| Ivahay | 67 | 4 | / |
| Ivê | 67 | 2 | / |
| Jievey | 67 | 2 | / |
| Jievoy | 67 | 2 | / |
| Ivá | 67 | 2 | / |
| D'Ivoy | 67 | 2 | / |
| Haivey | 67 | 2 | / |
| Évy | 67 | 1 | / |
| Haivay | 67 | 1 | / |
| Aihvey | 67 | 1 | / |
| Ishvey | 67 | 1 | / |
| Ivaaya | 67 | 1 | / |
| Jiviey | 67 | 1 | / |
Ivy Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Ivy in the Russian language | ||
| Ивы | ivy | - |
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