Ivey

Where Ivey comes from

Ivey 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    Ivey Foreman Lewis born
    American botanist
  2. 1883
    First appearance
    #920 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1890
    Ivey Wingo born
    American Major League Baseball catcher, manager
  4. 1974
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2024
    Peak, #787
    358 babies named Ivey — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ivey Foreman Lewis · American botanist, 1882–1964
  • Ivey Wingo · American Major League Baseball catcher, manager, 1890–1941
  • Ivey Shiver · Major League Baseball outfielder, 1907–1972

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.