Ivy is an English botanical name, believed to have been derived from the Ivy plant. The plant name is transferred from ifig, an old English word with unknown meaning.
The name Ivy entered American popularity charts around the turn of the 20th century, then took a nose dive almost immediately and began to lose her luster.
Early 1940s Ivy was barely in use as she fell off completely from naming charts. Apparently she appears to be reclaiming her lost glory in the past few years.
U.S. population data shows 58834 newborn girls have been named Ivy between 1880 and 2020. She has featured two times in the top 10 and also twice in the top 100 most popular girls name.
The year most newborns were given Ivy as first name was in 2018 with 3256 occurrences. During that year, she ranked 86 in girls’ name popularity.
Famous Ivy include Ivy Compton the British novelist, and baseball players Ivy Andrews & Ivy Olson.