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