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The IVY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 12,760 2602 0.005 47
United States (1880 census) 3,110 1954 0.006 62
Change since 1880 +9650 -648 -0.001 -15
Other Countries
Australia 1 313320 0 0
United Kingdom 44 26494 0 1
Top States for IVY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 2,290 1173 0.011 110
Mississippi 1,563 274 0.055 549
Illinois 904 1483 0.007 73
California 830 3839 0.002 25
Tennessee 770 1217 0.014 135
Top States for IVY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 1,563 274 0.055 549
Arkansas 634 588 0.024 237
Tennessee 770 1217 0.014 135
Texas 2,290 1173 0.011 110
Missouri 589 1295 0.011 105

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called IVY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called IVY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called IVY in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a IVY by picking someone at random in Mississippi than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of IVY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the IVY surname.

Ethnic distribution of IVY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 276 2.16
White (Hispanic) 227 1.78
Asian/Pacific 80 0.63
Native American/Alaskan 74 0.58
White (Caucasian) 7,380 57.84
Black/African American 4,722 37.01

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the IVY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

IVY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of IVY in historical publications

IVY. May be the same as Ive, or a derivative of it ; but there was a favourite character in the old Christmas games called Ivy, whose antagonist was Holly ; and the frolics of the if'%-i?fly and the Ivy- Girl were maintained in Kent (but on St. Valentine's day) till towards the close of the eighteenth cent. Gent. Mag. 1779. Seethe song of the " Holly and Ivy" quoted in Hone's Mysteries, p. 94, where Ivy is made to be of the feminine gender :

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to IVY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as IVY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for IVY

The following words are slight variants of IVY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.