Meaning not yet researched.
Ivar: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 133 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,080 in 1911.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,080 in 1911; #1,384 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ivar in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,384 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1911, at #1,080.
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Ivar: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 133 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,080 in 1911 · most boys in one year: 133 (2025).
In 2025, 133 US boys were named Ivar, making it the 1,384th most common boys’ name of the year, up 139 places from #1,523 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 116 boys named Ivar in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,080, reached in 1911. The most boys given the name in a single year was 133, in 2025. For comparison, it was #7,708 in 2015 and #3,484 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ivar in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1896 with 5 babies. In all, 1,468 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 668 babies named Ivar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 884 US boys were named Ivar; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 133. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,843 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ivar ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #807 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Iver (1,789 babies since 1880) and Ever (7,375 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ivars are summarised on this page.
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 Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ivars (28).
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.
No nicknames listed for Ivar in the open dataset we use.
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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 7 | #807 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,057 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,149 | — |
| New York | 10 | #1,162 | — |
| California | 15 | #1,269 | — |
| Texas | 15 | #1,319 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,356 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 133 | #1,384 |
| 2024 | — | — | 116 | #1,523 |
| 2023 | — | — | 126 | #1,442 |
| 2022 | — | — | 121 | #1,500 |
| 2021 | — | — | 93 | #1,741 |
| 2020 | — | — | 79 | #1,881 |
| 2019 | — | — | 87 | #1,779 |
| 2018 | — | — | 67 | #2,108 |
| 2017 | — | — | 48 | #2,611 |
| 2016 | — | — | 14 | #6,156 |
| 2015 | — | — | 10 | #7,708 |
| 2014 | — | — | 11 | #7,236 |
| 2013 | — | — | 12 | #6,764 |
| 2011 | — | — | 6 | #11,390 |
| 2010 | — | — | 5 | #13,013 |
| 2009 | — | — | 8 | #9,312 |
| 2008 | — | — | 10 | #7,916 |
| 2006 | — | — | 8 | #9,045 |
| 2003 | — | — | 10 | #6,920 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #11,360 |
| 2000 | — | — | 7 | #8,551 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,584 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,402 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,154 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,646 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,195 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,246 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,352 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,143 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,461 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,427 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,206 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,384 |
| 1962 | — | — | 10 | #2,750 |
| 1961 | — | — | 10 | #2,787 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,299 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,201 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,190 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #3,080 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,052 |
| 1953 | — | — | 8 | #3,025 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #3,951 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,484 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,474 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,529 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,653 |
| 1943 | — | — | 9 | #2,644 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #3,072 |
| 1939 | — | — | 7 | #2,968 |
| 1938 | — | — | 7 | #3,014 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,778 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,340 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,815 |
| 1934 | — | — | 11 | #2,329 |
| 1933 | — | — | 8 | #2,859 |
| 1932 | — | — | 7 | #3,221 |
| 1931 | — | — | 14 | #2,046 |
| 1930 | — | — | 11 | #2,521 |
| 1929 | — | — | 14 | #2,141 |
| 1928 | — | — | 12 | #2,452 |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,801 |
| 1926 | — | — | 9 | #3,017 |
| 1925 | — | — | 13 | #2,366 |
| 1924 | — | — | 10 | #2,920 |
| 1923 | — | — | 11 | #2,694 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #4,062 |
| 1921 | — | — | 13 | #2,429 |
| 1920 | — | — | 16 | #2,091 |
| 1919 | — | — | 15 | #2,102 |
| 1918 | — | — | 17 | #1,949 |
| 1917 | — | — | 12 | #2,350 |
| 1916 | — | — | 8 | #3,050 |
| 1915 | — | — | 15 | #1,923 |
| 1914 | — | — | 10 | #2,185 |
| 1913 | — | — | 12 | #1,628 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,817 |
| 1911 | — | — | 11 | #1,080 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,499 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,177 |
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).