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How popular is the name Ivy?
Births per year, rank history and how many Ivies are alive today.
Ivy is one of the ten most popular girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 9th in 2025 with 1,698 babies given the name. The name peaked in 1904, when around 6,500 babies were given the name, the 16th most popular that year. Ivy's popularity is double-peaked: strongest by births in the early 1900s, having dropped out of the published rankings in between, with a second wave in the early 2020s that climbs even higher up the rankings. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 140,000 babies have been named Ivy in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
The Ivy you are most likely to meet is around 5 years old. Half of all Ivies born in England and Wales are between 5 and 61, and there are at least 38,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly an 11% chance that at least one of them will be called Ivy.
How many babies are named Ivy each year?
Where does Ivy rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Ivy most popular?
Ivy peaked in 1904, when around 6,500 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Ivy?
At least 38,000 people named Ivy born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Ivy?
Most living Ivies are between 5 and 61; the most common age is about 5.
Is Ivy becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 1904 peak.