Ivie

Where Ivie comes from

Ivie 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #813 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1896
    Peak, #813
    16 babies named Ivie — more than any year before or since.
  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 it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  6. 1987
    Ivie Okujaye born
    Nigerian actor, producer and musician
In the dictionary

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

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.