Ivah
Where Ivah comes from
Ivah hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
Along the way
- 1880First SSA yearAlready #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
- 1882Peak, #56011 babies named Ivah — more than any year before or since.
- 1928The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,725.
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
No widely known Ivah turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.
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.