Ivie

Where Ivie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Ivie.

  • Vowel-ended
Ivie through the years
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #813 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1896
    Peak, #813
    16 babies named Ivie, its best rank.
  3. 1897
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,167.
  4. 1905
    Ivie Anderson born
    American jazz singer
  5. 1953
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  6. 1987
    Ivie Okujaye born
    Nigerian actor, producer and musician
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Ivie Okujaye · Nigerian actor, producer and musician, born 1987
  • Ivie Anderson · American jazz singer, 1905–1949
  • Ivie Richardson · South African tennis player, 1895–1960

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.