How rare is the name Iva?

9,550 people in the United States have the first name Iva, about 1 in 31,626. It ranks #2,539 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

IVA

#2,539

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,550
About
1 in 31,626
This common or more
80.1%
Who bears it

Of the 9,550 people named Iva, 77.6% reported their origin as White, 12.3% as Black and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino. 97.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Iva peaked in 1918, when 906 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1918
Births that year
906
In 2025*
117 ▼87%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 38,961 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Iva by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1890s, when it ranked #165. The largest share of babies named Iva, 43.5%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#2002,132
1890s#1654,124
1900s#2054,257
1910s#3446,983
1920s#4257,512
1930s#5164,890
1940s#8082,852
1950s#1,1881,953
1960s#1,813991
1970s#2,686582
1980s#4,138373
1990s#5,934308
2000s#5,767449
2010s#3,791910
2020s#3,387645
Before 190117.3%
Greatest Generation 1901–2743.5%
Silent Generation 1928–4520.7%
Baby boom 1946–649.1%
Generation X 1965–802.6%
Millennials 1981–961.4%
Generation Z 1997–121.9%
2013 and later3.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Iva is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Iva has been most common in Oklahoma (4.3×), Arkansas (4.3×), and West Virginia (4.2×), and least common in New Jersey (0.07×).

23,412 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Iva

#2,537 Ravi · 9,577#2,538 Demarcus · 9,564#2,540 Katarina · 9,543#2,541 Margarito · 9,541

Spelled almost the same

7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Iva, most common first.

#899 Ivy · 50,093#8,689 Ivo · 1,656#32,469 Ivi · 259#35,030 Ive · 231#37,148 Ivah · 211#37,508 Iv · 208#43,336 Ivia · 163

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