Meaning not yet researched.
Irving: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 90 in 2025. Its best rank was #93 in 1911.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #93 in 1911; #1,783 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Irving in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,783 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1911, at #93.
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Irving: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 90 boys in 2025. Peak: #93 in 1911 · most boys in one year: 1,533 (1918).
In 2025, 90 US boys were named Irving, making it the 1,783rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 159 places from #1,624 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 105 boys named Irving in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #93, reached in 1911. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,533, in 1918. For comparison, it was #1,605 in 2015 and #391 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Irving in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 60 babies with the name. In all, 44,449 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 11,960 babies named Irving.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,105 US boys were named Irving; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 141. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,979 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Irving ranked highest in California in 2025, at #976 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Irvin (39,997 babies since 1880) and Irwin (15,958 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Erving and Irvine are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Irv.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Erving (940), Irvine (904).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Irving is listed as a nickname for Irvin.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 23 | #976 | #997 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,193 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,270 | #1,081 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 90 | #1,783 |
| 2024 | — | — | 105 | #1,624 |
| 2023 | — | — | 97 | #1,721 |
| 2022 | — | — | 104 | #1,659 |
| 2021 | — | — | 94 | #1,731 |
| 2020 | — | — | 92 | #1,699 |
| 2019 | — | — | 120 | #1,456 |
| 2018 | — | — | 123 | #1,423 |
| 2017 | — | — | 141 | #1,287 |
| 2016 | — | — | 139 | #1,308 |
| 2015 | — | — | 100 | #1,605 |
| 2014 | — | — | 113 | #1,448 |
| 2013 | — | — | 129 | #1,332 |
| 2012 | — | — | 115 | #1,442 |
| 2011 | — | — | 121 | #1,379 |
| 2010 | — | — | 139 | #1,259 |
| 2009 | — | — | 139 | #1,267 |
| 2008 | — | — | 159 | #1,143 |
| 2007 | — | — | 179 | #1,051 |
| 2006 | — | — | 181 | #1,018 |
| 2005 | — | — | 177 | #981 |
| 2004 | — | — | 183 | #925 |
| 2003 | — | — | 214 | #817 |
| 2002 | — | — | 187 | #876 |
| 2001 | — | — | 160 | #962 |
| 2000 | — | — | 191 | #840 |
| 1999 | — | — | 140 | #1,004 |
| 1998 | — | — | 127 | #1,057 |
| 1997 | — | — | 131 | #989 |
| 1996 | — | — | 152 | #890 |
| 1995 | — | — | 165 | #838 |
| 1994 | — | — | 211 | #721 |
| 1993 | — | — | 187 | #766 |
| 1992 | — | — | 255 | #645 |
| 1991 | — | — | 340 | #551 |
| 1990 | — | — | 220 | #684 |
| 1989 | — | — | 222 | #672 |
| 1988 | — | — | 304 | #522 |
| 1987 | — | — | 109 | #901 |
| 1986 | — | — | 84 | #1,011 |
| 1985 | — | — | 73 | #1,085 |
| 1984 | — | — | 74 | #1,037 |
| 1983 | — | — | 82 | #974 |
| 1982 | — | — | 77 | #1,035 |
| 1981 | — | — | 88 | #962 |
| 1980 | — | — | 91 | #940 |
| 1979 | — | — | 82 | #978 |
| 1978 | — | — | 79 | #973 |
| 1977 | — | — | 71 | #1,021 |
| 1976 | — | — | 77 | #953 |
| 1975 | — | — | 82 | #908 |
| 1974 | — | — | 69 | #990 |
| 1973 | — | — | 86 | #856 |
| 1972 | — | — | 102 | #793 |
| 1971 | — | — | 103 | #793 |
| 1970 | — | — | 132 | #715 |
| 1969 | — | — | 114 | #733 |
| 1968 | — | — | 122 | #681 |
| 1967 | — | — | 133 | #649 |
| 1966 | — | — | 121 | #674 |
| 1965 | — | — | 111 | #706 |
| 1964 | — | — | 139 | #658 |
| 1963 | — | — | 158 | #623 |
| 1962 | — | — | 170 | #595 |
| 1961 | — | — | 197 | #558 |
| 1960 | — | — | 201 | #558 |
| 1959 | — | — | 175 | #591 |
| 1958 | — | — | 206 | #535 |
| 1957 | — | — | 228 | #511 |
| 1956 | — | — | 219 | #512 |
| 1955 | — | — | 248 | #469 |
| 1954 | — | — | 247 | #461 |
| 1953 | — | — | 243 | #458 |
| 1952 | — | — | 253 | #443 |
| 1951 | — | — | 286 | #403 |
| 1950 | — | — | 298 | #391 |
| 1949 | — | — | 283 | #400 |
| 1948 | — | — | 290 | #398 |
| 1947 | — | — | 320 | #384 |
| 1946 | — | — | 277 | #392 |
| 1945 | — | — | 266 | #364 |
| 1944 | — | — | 267 | #369 |
| 1943 | — | — | 325 | #340 |
| 1942 | — | — | 296 | #355 |
| 1941 | — | — | 317 | #328 |
| 1940 | — | — | 292 | #335 |
| 1939 | — | — | 322 | #310 |
| 1938 | — | — | 322 | #305 |
| 1937 | — | — | 338 | #292 |
| 1936 | — | — | 340 | #293 |
| 1935 | — | — | 353 | #288 |
| 1934 | — | — | 422 | #265 |
| 1933 | — | — | 408 | #260 |
| 1932 | — | — | 508 | #237 |
| 1931 | — | — | 583 | #215 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,486 | 643 | #207 |
| 1929 | — | — | 754 | #185 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,037 | 879 | #166 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,042 | 1,021 | #155 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,206 | 1,159 | #144 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,844 | 1,174 | #141 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,432 | 1,260 | #137 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,159 | 1,384 | #124 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,819 | 1,365 | #124 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,476 | 1,417 | #124 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,169 | 1,485 | #116 |
| 1919 | — | — | 1,440 | #111 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,169 | 1,533 | #108 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,919 | 1,470 | #106 |
| 1916 | — | — | 1,373 | #109 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,587 | 1,385 | #107 |
| 1914 | — | — | 1,156 | #100 |
| 1913 | — | — | 862 | #104 |
| 1912 | — | — | 815 | #94 |
| 1911 | — | — | 431 | #93 |
| 1910 | — | — | 272 | #118 |
| 1909 | — | — | 202 | #134 |
| 1908 | — | — | 225 | #114 |
| 1907 | — | — | 196 | #124 |
| 1906 | — | — | 170 | #125 |
| 1905 | — | — | 148 | #142 |
| 1904 | — | — | 159 | #133 |
| 1903 | — | — | 125 | #149 |
| 1902 | — | — | 104 | #168 |
| 1901 | — | — | 80 | #181 |
| 1900 | — | — | 115 | #185 |
| 1899 | — | — | 95 | #158 |
| 1898 | — | — | 113 | #150 |
| 1897 | — | — | 98 | #158 |
| 1896 | — | — | 87 | #188 |
| 1895 | — | — | 110 | #140 |
| 1894 | — | — | 102 | #151 |
| 1893 | — | — | 95 | #155 |
| 1892 | — | — | 59 | #229 |
| 1891 | — | — | 75 | #173 |
| 1890 | — | — | 69 | #193 |
| 1889 | — | — | 65 | #201 |
| 1888 | — | — | 89 | #170 |
| 1887 | — | — | 55 | #208 |
| 1886 | — | — | 60 | #219 |
| 1885 | — | — | 78 | #170 |
| 1884 | — | — | 80 | #176 |
| 1883 | — | — | 46 | #233 |
| 1882 | — | — | 61 | #208 |
| 1881 | — | — | 60 | #192 |
| 1880 | — | — | 60 | #203 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).