Iver

Where Iver comes from

Iver 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
  1. 1850
    Iver Holter born
    Norwegian composer
  2. 1884
    First appearance
    #971 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1887
    Peak, #819
    6 babies named Iver — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1902
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  6. 1996
    Iver Fossum born
    Norwegian association football player
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Iver Fossum · Norwegian association football player, born 1996
  • Iver Holter · Norwegian composer, 1850–1941
  • Iver Rosenkrantz · Danish diplomat, 1674–1745
  • Iver Lawson · Swedish track cyclist, 1879–1960
  • Iver Tildheim Andersen · Norwegian cross-country skier, born 2000

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.