Irving

Where Irving comes from

Variant of the Scottish habitational surname Irvine, probably from a Celtic word cognate with Welsh ir, yr (“fresh”) + afon (“river”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Irving
  • 2 syllables
Irving through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #200 among boys, with 60 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Irving Langmuir born
    American chemist and physicist
  3. 1888
    Irving Berlin born
    American composer and lyricist
  4. 1911
    Peak, #93
    431 babies named Irving, its best rank.
  5. 1958
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #535.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, often used by English-speaking Jews to anglicize Israel.
Namesakes
  • Irving Langmuir · American chemist and physicist, 1881–1957
  • Irving Berlin · American composer and lyricist, 1888–1989
  • Irving Thalberg · American film producer, 1899–1936
  • Irving Fisher · American economist and statistician, 1867–1947
  • Irving Stone · American writer, 1903–1989

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.