Ivory

Where Ivory comes from

The surname is habitational from Ivry in Normandy, and in some cases patronymic from a diminutive of Ivor. The modern given name is associated with ivory.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ivory
  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1886
    First appearance
    #1,108 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1914
    Ivory Joe Hunter born
    American rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, and pianist
  3. 1982
    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.
  4. 1984
    Ivory Latta born
    American basketball player
  5. 2025
    Peak, #378
    810 babies named Ivory — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from English.
  • A female given name from English.
Namesakes
  • Ivory Joe Hunter · American rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, and pianist, 1914–1974
  • Ivory Latta · American basketball player, born 1984
  • Ivory Aquino · Filipina-American actress
  • Ivory Williams · American sprinter, born 1985
  • Ivory Nwokorie · Nigerian Paralympic powerlifter, born 1901

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.