Iver

Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · #2,167 for boys in 2025, 66 births
Given to boys 94.3% of the time

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Peak · boys
1887 · 6 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,687
since 1884

Iver over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201894peak #1,932, 1900peak #819, 1887girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#2,16766
2024—#2,19066
2023#15,1945#1,92881
2022#15,3065#2,19166
2021—#2,10968
2020—#3,13636
2019—#2,22862
2018—#2,08368
2017—#2,71545
2016—#2,58748
2015—#3,36533
2014—#2,88540
2013—#3,40531
2012—#4,00325
2011—#5,20017
2010—#7,08711
2009—#5,55416
2008—#5,76715
2007—#12,3675
2006—#10,6626
2005—#6,63411
2004—#11,3565
2003—#9,5816
2002—#10,6675
2001——
2000—#9,1126
1999——
1998——
1997——
1996——
1995——
1994——
1993—#8,7005
1992—#8,4355
1991—#7,2716
1990——
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1988——
1987——
1986——
1985——
1984——
1983——
1982——
1981—#5,4686
1980—#4,9407
1979——
1978——
1977—#5,8455
1976—#5,5875
1975——
1974——
1973—#4,5056
1972—#3,9637
1971—#4,9075
1970——
1969——
1968—#3,6736
1967——
1966——
1965—#2,9828
1964——
1963—#3,3187
1962—#3,0418
1961—#3,3567
1960——
1959—#3,2907
1958—#3,2757
1957—#3,5526
1956—#2,9698
1955—#3,5056
1954—#3,8275
1953—#2,53110
1952—#2,6809
1951—#3,0667
1950—#3,3296
1949—#2,45310
1948—#2,6089
1947—#2,6719
1946—#2,9197
1945——
1944——
1943——
1942—#3,5605
1941—#3,5055
1940—#1,98313
1939—#1,48920
1938—#1,61318
1937—#3,1756
1936—#2,30110
1935—#2,02913
1934—#2,39310
1933—#2,7388
1932#3,9016#2,10113
1931—#2,20712
1930—#2,29312
1929#4,5705#2,00215
1928#4,7255#2,04815
1927#3,8757#1,95917
1926#4,8515#1,78719
1925—#2,19314
1924#3,6658#1,53225
1923—#1,23534
1922#4,0117#1,30831
1921#4,4646#1,70321
1920#3,09710#1,74720
1919—#1,53123
1918—#1,19234
1917—#1,90016
1916—#1,05837
1915#3,7956#1,21729
1914#2,4349#1,22123
1913#2,5407#1,36515
1912#2,6346#1,17416
1911—#1,3877
1910—#1,4216
1909—#95110
1908—#1,2176
1907——
1906——
1905—#1,0916
1904—#9667
1903—#1,1305
1902—#1,0136
1901——
1900#1,9325—
1899——
1898—#8857
1897——
1896——
1895——
1894—#9546
1893——
1892—#8617
1891—#8416
1890—#9945
1889——
1888—#9176
1887—#8196
1886——
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1884—#9715
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First appearance
1884

The first year at least five boys were named Iver! It came in at #971, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1884–1886, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Iver is popular in 1894

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Iver
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 23 spots since 2024 (#2,190 → #2,167)
  • 969 spots since 2020 (#3,136 → #2,167)
  • 1,198 spots since 2015 (#3,365 → #2,167)
  • Biggest jump: 266 spots in 1909 (#1,217 → #951)
  • Biggest drop: 470 spots in 1910 (#951 → #1,421)
Rise & fade · boys
3 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1884
  • Peaked 1887 at #819 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1889, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 10 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 1890–1892
Share of babies · boys
1 in 16,400
  • Highest: 1 in 16,400 boys born in 1909 were named Iver (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 25,880 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #819 in 1887, was only 1 in 16,902 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 22.7% of all boys named Iver (383) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1902
  • Mostly girls until 1901, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s17#819 (1887)#902
1890s31#841 (1891)#907
1900s40#951 (1909)#1,061
1910s206#1,058 (1916)#1,347
1920s211#1,235 (1923)#1,751
1930s122#1,489 (1939)#2,234
1940s58#1,983 (1940)#2,814
1950s71#2,531 (1953)#3,202
1960s36#2,982 (1965)#3,274
1970s28#3,963 (1972)#4,961
1980s13#4,940 (1980)#5,204
1990s16#7,271 (1991)#8,135
2000s75#5,554 (2009)#9,078
2010s380#2,083 (2018)#3,556
2020s383#1,928 (2023)#2,287

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

Iver in 1894

boys
#954
6 births · 1 in 19,295 boys

Top boys' names in 1894

  1. #1John8,237
  2. #2William7,274
  3. #3James5,110
  4. #4George4,365
  5. #5Charles3,788
  6. #6Joseph2,977
  7. #7Frank2,863
  8. #8Robert2,497
  9. #9Henry2,278
  10. #10Harry2,189
  11. #954Iver6
More about 1894

boys

115,768 boys got a published name in 1894; 1 in 19,295 of them was named Iver, which outranked 23.0% of the 1,239 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 35.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Iver
  1. #857Winston7
  2. #857Yee7
  3. #857Zed7
  4. #954Iver6
  5. #954Ada6
  6. #954Adolfo6
  7. #954Alec6
  8. #1,074Acie5
  9. #1,074Adlai5
  10. #1,074Adolf5

Tied with 119 names at #954; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1893
Risers
  1. ↑ 514Levy#1,035 → #521
  2. ↑ 514Orrin#1,035 → #521
  3. ↑ 488Alvie#907 → #419
  4. ↑ 468Jonnie#1,035 → #567
  5. ↑ 441Carson#1,035 → #594
Fallers
  1. ↓ 683Lindsay#391 → #1,074
  2. ↓ 519Minnie#435 → #954
  3. ↓ 475Ludwig#479 → #954
  4. ↓ 459Alice#615 → #1,074
  5. ↓ 459Julia#615 → #1,074

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

See the top 100 for 1894 →