Ivah

#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births

Peak · girls
1882 · 11 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
908
since 1880

Ivah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Ivah has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201895peak #560, 1882girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#10,9178
2024#8,94611
2023#10,3129
2022#12,2437
2021#11,1468
2020
2019
2018
2017#9,94310
2016#10,11310
2015#10,14810
2014#13,0697
2013#11,9698
2012#13,4837
2011
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2006#17,1685
2005#16,4625
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1947#3,7069
1946
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1944#4,5745
1943#3,8017
1942
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1938#3,4507
1937#3,1468
1936#4,1815
1935
1934#2,18714
1933#3,4067
1932#3,2748
1931#2,58111
1930#2,84510
1929#2,58712
1928#4,7255
1927#3,05310
1926#2,70812
1925#3,11610
1924#2,66113
1923#2,26416
1922#2,61213
1921#1,66826
1920#1,70824
1919#1,98918
1918#1,69023
1917#1,92318
1916#1,63022
1915#1,57122
1914#1,54118
1913#1,88311
1912#1,84410
1911#1,11316
1910#1,11016
1909#1,01516
1908#1,35710
1907#1,3849
1906#1,15411
1905#1,09312
1904#1,05012
1903#96913
1902#1,3208
1901#77118
1900#1,05313
1899#83515
1898#79018
1897#89513
1896#84315
1895#56528
1894#78215
1893#64420
1892#68518
1891#69515
1890#64217
1889#72413
1888#66315
1887#60814
1886#8977
1885#69510
1884#64011
1883#6928
1882#56011
1881#7406
1880#7386
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Ivah was already there! It came in at #738, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1935–1936, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Ivah
Momentum · girls
Brand new
  • 1,971 spots since 2024 (#8,946#10,917)
  • 769 spots since 2015 (#10,148#10,917)
  • Biggest jump: 351 spots in 1903 (#1,320#969)
  • Biggest drop: 549 spots in 1902 (#771#1,320)
Rise & fade · girls
2 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1882 at #560 (11 births)
  • Births halved by 1928, 46 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 22 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 1880–1899
Share of babies · girls
1 in 8,344
  • Highest: 1 in 8,344 girls born in 1895 were named Ivah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #560 in 1882, was only 1 in 9,804 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1890s
  • 19.2% of all girls named Ivah (174) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s101#560 (1882)#696
1890s174#565 (1895)#738
1900s122#771 (1901)#1,117
1910s174#1,110 (1910)#1,629
1920s141#1,668 (1921)#2,710
1930s70#2,187 (1934)#3,134
1940s21#3,706 (1947)#4,027
1950s0
1960s0
1970s0
1980s0
1990s0
2000s10#16,462 (2005)#16,815
2010s52#9,943 (2017)#11,454
2020s43#8,946 (2024)#10,713

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Ivah in 1895

girls
#565
28 births · 1 in 8,344 girls

Top girls' names in 1895

  1. #1Mary13,447
  2. #2Anna5,950
  3. #3Helen4,023
  4. #4Margaret3,931
  5. #5Elizabeth3,603
  6. #6Ruth3,551
  7. #7Florence3,471
  8. #8Ethel3,391
  9. #9Marie3,011
  10. #10Emma2,952
  11. #565Ivah28
More about 1895

girls

233,627 girls got a published name in 1895; 1 in 8,344 of them was named Ivah, which outranked 68.8% of the 1,808 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ivah
  1. #547Sybil29
  2. #547Valeria29
  3. #547Vallie29
  4. #565Ivah28
  5. #565Enid28
  6. #565Gwendolyn28
  7. #565Ima28
  8. #578Charles27
  9. #578Emelia27
  10. #578Ethelyn27

Tied with 12 names at #565; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1894
Risers
  1. 715Glenn#1,353#638
  2. 670Drusilla#1,485#815
  3. 670Gertha#1,485#815
  4. 670Lorine#1,485#815
  5. 627Leva#1,485#858
Fallers
  1. 848Gina#744#1,592
  2. 848Laurel#744#1,592
  3. 848Pennie#744#1,592
  4. 810Buena#782#1,592
  5. 780Albertina#812#1,592

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1895