Ivah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Biblical name
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪvə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ivah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 437K
- CACanada≈1 in 719K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 437K (inferred from the name graph)
211 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Biblical name
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ivah 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 211 | 1 in 1.6M | 196 | Ivah | 88 |
| CA Canada | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 719K | 1 | Ivah | 14 |
| PH Philippines | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Ivah | 12 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Ivah | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Ivah | 8 |
| SG Singapore | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 437K | — | Ivah | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
211 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Ivah is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bfg, venom of snake, saliva of human
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.
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 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 196 | #37,148 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1895 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 26 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1915 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1893 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1917 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1914 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1901 | 18 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ivah mean, and where does it come from?
- Biblical name Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Ivah?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪvə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Ivah a male or female name?
- Ivah 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.
- In which country does Ivah have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 211 people named Ivah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ivah.
- How common is the name Ivah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 211 people named Ivah in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ivahThe 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, “Ivah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.