Ivory

What Ivory means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Ivory yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #378 vs #2,440 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ivory?

US: Rising: up from #717 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2945 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 810 girls got the name (#378 that year). First in the US records in 1886.

How common

• About 1 in 1,984 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 23,026 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AK (4.23 per 1,000 girls), OK (1.89 per 1,000 girls), KY (1.8 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Ivory is #378 in the US and #2440 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 96.4% of US babies named Ivory were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Avery5,267 US · 178 E&W
• Ivori57 US
• Avary20 US
• Avory19 US
• Ivery16 US
• Avori16 US
• Ivoree14 US
• Evora6 US · 6 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Ivory

Girls

• Rose#114Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1917, with 9,783 babies; 2,386 in 2025
• Mavis#560Editor’s note Up from #1,003 in 2015 to #560 in 2025 in the US
• Rosemary#251“dew of the sea”^*
• Opal#423Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,110 in 2015, #423 in 2025
• Iris#61“rainbow”^*
• Briar#400Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #835 in 2015, #400 in 2025

For a brother

• Royal#476Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #476 vs #2,014 in 2025
• August#81“month of August”^*
• Duke#695Editor’s note Down from #601 in 2015 to #695 in 2025 in the US
• Prince#447Editor’s note Down from #386 in 2015 to #447 in 2025 in the US
• Briar#686Editor’s note Used for both: 34% of US babies named Briar in 2025 were boys
• Sonny#298Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #822 in 2015, #298 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ivory’s. Rank is US 2025.