Meaning not yet researched.
Iva: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 117 in 2025. Its best rank was #111 in 1894.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #111 in 1894; #1,740 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Iva in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,740 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1894, at #111.
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Iva: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 117 girls in 2025. Peak: #111 in 1894 · most girls in one year: 889 (1918).
In 2025, 117 US girls were named Iva, making it the 1,740th most common girls’ name of the year, up 445 places from #2,185 in 2024. That is 30 more than the 87 girls named Iva in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #111, reached in 1894. The most girls given the name in a single year was 889, in 1918. For comparison, it was #1,975 in 2015 and #577 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Iva in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 127 babies with the name. In all, 38,961 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 7,512 babies named Iva.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,101 US girls were named Iva; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 126. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,737 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Iva ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #765 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Eva (285,768 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ivaya are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ivy.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Croatian, Czech, Italian, Latvian and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ivaya (6).
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 12 | #765 | #1,212 |
| Alabama | 5 | #868 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,126 | — |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,170 | #1,750 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,301 | #1,052 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,488 | #1,506 |
| New York | 6 | #1,917 | #2,346 |
| California | 8 | #2,368 | #2,836 |
| Texas | 6 | #3,076 | #3,032 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 117 | #1,740 | — | — |
| 2024 | 87 | #2,185 | — | — |
| 2023 | 98 | #2,009 | — | — |
| 2022 | 114 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 2021 | 125 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 2020 | 104 | #1,865 | — | — |
| 2019 | 104 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 2018 | 109 | #1,855 | — | — |
| 2017 | 117 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 2016 | 126 | #1,698 | — | — |
| 2015 | 101 | #1,975 | — | — |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 2013 | 79 | #2,331 | — | — |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,881 | — | — |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,927 | — | — |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,879 | — | — |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,578 | — | — |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,240 | — | — |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,739 | — | — |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,432 | — | — |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,980 | — | — |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,519 | — | — |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,064 | — | — |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,019 | — | — |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,579 | — | — |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,552 | — | — |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,366 | — | — |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,321 | — | — |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,745 | — | — |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,669 | — | — |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,265 | — | — |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,166 | — | — |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,529 | — | — |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,903 | — | — |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,755 | — | — |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,180 | — | — |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,948 | — | — |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,456 | — | — |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,587 | — | — |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,640 | — | — |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,966 | 5 | #6,959 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,447 | — | — |
| 1983 | 39 | #2,408 | — | — |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,463 | — | — |
| 1981 | 33 | #2,741 | — | — |
| 1980 | 45 | #2,228 | — | — |
| 1979 | 47 | #2,124 | — | — |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 1977 | 56 | #1,811 | — | — |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,977 | — | — |
| 1975 | 61 | #1,611 | 6 | #5,065 |
| 1974 | 56 | #1,656 | — | — |
| 1973 | 56 | #1,628 | — | — |
| 1972 | 60 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 1971 | 74 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 1970 | 75 | #1,394 | — | — |
| 1969 | 57 | #1,579 | — | — |
| 1968 | 65 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 1967 | 75 | #1,233 | — | — |
| 1966 | 102 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1965 | 87 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1964 | 96 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1963 | 101 | #1,077 | 7 | #3,460 |
| 1962 | 113 | #1,010 | 5 | #4,314 |
| 1961 | 147 | #881 | — | — |
| 1960 | 136 | #905 | — | — |
| 1959 | 143 | #856 | — | — |
| 1958 | 148 | #838 | 6 | #3,707 |
| 1957 | 180 | #744 | 5 | #4,243 |
| 1956 | 198 | #681 | 6 | #3,710 |
| 1955 | 193 | #675 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 1954 | 206 | #638 | 7 | #3,288 |
| 1953 | 203 | #623 | 8 | #3,024 |
| 1952 | 206 | #606 | 9 | #2,769 |
| 1951 | 213 | #590 | — | — |
| 1950 | 210 | #577 | 7 | #3,169 |
| 1949 | 234 | #548 | — | — |
| 1948 | 248 | #524 | — | — |
| 1947 | 267 | #506 | 5 | #3,984 |
| 1946 | 240 | #506 | — | — |
| 1945 | 252 | #447 | — | — |
| 1944 | 257 | #452 | 8 | #2,740 |
| 1943 | 287 | #435 | 9 | #2,643 |
| 1942 | 334 | #390 | 5 | #3,805 |
| 1941 | 310 | #391 | 8 | #2,760 |
| 1940 | 378 | #328 | 10 | #2,399 |
| 1939 | 395 | #310 | 9 | #2,531 |
| 1938 | 373 | #326 | 11 | #2,258 |
| 1937 | 411 | #306 | 8 | #2,775 |
| 1936 | 446 | #286 | — | — |
| 1935 | 459 | #283 | 16 | #1,791 |
| 1934 | 505 | #273 | 5 | #3,919 |
| 1933 | 533 | #266 | 16 | #1,796 |
| 1932 | 542 | #269 | 9 | #2,735 |
| 1931 | 524 | #272 | 10 | #2,559 |
| 1930 | 605 | #254 | 13 | #2,236 |
| 1929 | 648 | #246 | 18 | #1,829 |
| 1928 | 643 | #250 | 17 | #1,932 |
| 1927 | 700 | #247 | 12 | #2,464 |
| 1926 | 711 | #247 | 12 | #2,489 |
| 1925 | 732 | #245 | 13 | #2,365 |
| 1924 | 763 | #240 | 13 | #2,405 |
| 1923 | 760 | #236 | 16 | #2,071 |
| 1922 | 761 | #234 | 16 | #2,096 |
| 1921 | 785 | #231 | 15 | #2,205 |
| 1920 | 861 | #222 | 16 | #2,090 |
| 1919 | 861 | #213 | 13 | #2,322 |
| 1918 | 889 | #212 | 17 | #1,948 |
| 1917 | 855 | #206 | 17 | #1,863 |
| 1916 | 844 | #206 | 15 | #1,999 |
| 1915 | 878 | #190 | 10 | #2,531 |
| 1914 | 618 | #207 | 10 | #2,183 |
| 1913 | 577 | #191 | 6 | #2,639 |
| 1912 | 550 | #179 | 5 | #2,715 |
| 1911 | 397 | #180 | 7 | #1,467 |
| 1910 | 406 | #168 | 8 | #1,258 |
| 1909 | 401 | #162 | 8 | #1,120 |
| 1908 | 418 | #160 | 5 | #1,498 |
| 1907 | 401 | #158 | 7 | #1,145 |
| 1906 | 400 | #149 | — | — |
| 1905 | 422 | #142 | 6 | #1,165 |
| 1904 | 424 | #138 | 6 | #1,139 |
| 1903 | 398 | #139 | — | — |
| 1902 | 438 | #127 | 5 | #1,220 |
| 1901 | 427 | #120 | — | — |
| 1900 | 483 | #131 | 8 | #1,002 |
| 1899 | 432 | #112 | — | — |
| 1898 | 451 | #119 | 8 | #847 |
| 1897 | 454 | #114 | — | — |
| 1896 | 434 | #112 | — | — |
| 1895 | 435 | #114 | — | — |
| 1894 | 424 | #111 | — | — |
| 1893 | 384 | #116 | 8 | #798 |
| 1892 | 394 | #114 | — | — |
| 1891 | 341 | #116 | — | — |
| 1890 | 354 | #113 | 5 | #1,076 |
| 1889 | 321 | #117 | 7 | #843 |
| 1888 | 302 | #122 | — | — |
| 1887 | 253 | #119 | — | — |
| 1886 | 237 | #121 | 5 | #1,035 |
| 1885 | 229 | #116 | — | — |
| 1884 | 213 | #119 | 7 | #815 |
| 1883 | 170 | #123 | 5 | #968 |
| 1882 | 134 | #133 | — | — |
| 1881 | 122 | #130 | — | — |
| 1880 | 127 | #129 | — | — |
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).