Irva

Last seen for girls in 1949 at #4,673

Peak · girls
1899 · 19 births
Debut · girls
19 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
229
since 1899

Irva over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Irva has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201900peak #728, 1899girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1949#4,6736
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1926#3,5648
1925#4,9735
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1923#4,9675
1922#3,15210
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1919#3,00510
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1917#2,55212
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1899#72819
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First appearance
1899

The first year at least five girls were named Irva! It came in at #728, and was given to 19 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1900–1907, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Irva is popular in 1900

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Irva
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1949
  • Biggest drop: 1,204 spots in 1900 (#728 → #1,932)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1899
  • Peaked 1899 at #728 (19 births)
  • Births halved by 1900, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1899
Share of babies · girls
1 in 12,264
  • Highest: 1 in 12,264 girls born in 1899 were named Irva (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 285,146 girls born in 1949 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 28.4% of all girls named Irva (65) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s19#728 (1899)#728
1900s17#1,676 (1908)#1,762
1910s64#2,360 (1912)#2,823
1920s65#2,587 (1929)#3,719
1930s29#2,845 (1930)#3,502
1940s35#3,863 (1940)#4,364

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Irva in 1900

girls
#1,932
5 births · 1 in 59,957 girls

Top girls' names in 1900

  1. #1Mary16,705
  2. #2Helen6,342
  3. #3Anna6,114
  4. #4Margaret5,304
  5. #5Ruth4,765
  6. #6Elizabeth4,096
  7. #7Florence3,920
  8. #8Ethel3,896
  9. #9Marie3,856
  10. #10Lillian3,414
  11. #1,932Irva5
More about 1900

girls

299,784 girls got a published name in 1900; 1 in 59,957 of them was named Irva, which outranked 13.1% of the 2,223 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Irva
  1. #1,723Zilda6
  2. #1,723Zillah6
  3. #1,723Zylpha6
  4. #1,932Irva5
  5. #1,932Adabelle5
  6. #1,932Afton5
  7. #1,932Ailene5

Tied with 291 names at #1,932; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1899
Risers
  1. ↑ 940Rosia#1,596 → #656
  2. ↑ 763Josiephine#1,596 → #833
  3. ↑ 763Lelar#1,596 → #833
  4. ↑ 736Carmel#1,596 → #860
  5. ↑ 722Gloria#1,278 → #556
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,204Irva#728 → #1,932
  2. ↓ 1,026Dellie#906 → #1,932
  3. ↓ 1,026Marybelle#906 → #1,932
  4. ↓ 949Sada#983 → #1,932
  5. ↓ 949Sidonia#983 → #1,932

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1900 →