Ivy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Any of several woody, climbing, or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aɪvi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ivy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 33rd most common given name.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 432(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.6K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 449 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 432 (inferred from the name graph)
≈400,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Any of several woody, climbing, or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ivy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈400,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Ivy | 79 |
| PH Philippines | #411 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Ivy | 142 |
| US United States | — | 50,093 | 1 in 6.6K | 49K | Ivy | 449 |
| HK Hong Kong | #33 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 432 | — | Ivy | 80 |
| ZA South Africa | #929 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Ivy | 51 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Ivy | 98 |
| MY Malaysia | #740 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Ivy | 87 |
| SG Singapore | #221 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Ivy | 108 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ivy is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Old English plant name.
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English: from the vocabulary word denoting the plant (Old English fig ). This given name was coined at the end of the 19th century together with a large number of other female given names derived from words denoting flowers and plants. It is currently somewhat out of fashion.
as a word
In Finnish, initialism of Itsenäisten valtioiden yhteisö; CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malagasy, saliva, drivel, slabber
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ivy Ledbetter Leeb. 1877USAmerican businessman (1877-1934)
- Ivy Compton-Burnettb. 1884GBEnglish writer (1884–1969)
- Ivy Dumontb. 1930BSGovernor-General of the Bahamas
- Ivy Matsepe-Casaburrib. 1937ZASouth African politician (1937-2009)
- Ivy Ling Pob. 1939CNHong Kong actress and singer
- Melissa Rauchb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Ivy Levanb. 1987USAmerican singer
- Ivy Latimerb. 1994AUAustralian actress
- Ivy Georgeb. 2007USAmerican actress
- Blue Ivy Carterb. 2012USAmerican singer and actress (born 2012)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 98 sources across 53 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 49K | #899 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5.1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #899 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Ivy a male or female name?
- Ivy is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Ivy mean, and where does it come from?
- Any of several woody, climbing, or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Ivy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 50,093 people named Ivy in 2020, about 1 in 6.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Ivy compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Ivy is the 33rd most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Ivy?
- In the etymology graph, Yuie is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ivy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 400 thousand people named Ivy in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ivy.
- How do you pronounce Ivy?
- A machine transcription gives /aɪvi/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Ivy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ivyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ivy” — the 33rd most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.