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The surname Ivery

A surname, carried by 2,457 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex I160

Ivery: #12,597 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Ivery #12,597, 2,457 people Ivery: #12,597 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Ivery #12,597, 2,457 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ivery is more common than 92.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,457 people named Ivery in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 125,660 Americans. That is up 19% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,070.

#12,597
rank among US surnames
2,457
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+18.7%
change since 2000 (was #13,480)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#12,593Roesler2,458125,608
#12,597Rasch2,457125,660
#12,602Lichtenstein2,456125,711

Who is named Ivery

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

85% of people named Ivery identified as Black (not Hispanic), 7.7% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.3% as two or more races.

  • Black (not Hispanic) 85%
  • White (not Hispanic) 7.7%
  • Two or more races 4.3%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Ivery

Ivery has the Soundex code I160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code I160.

Questions

How common is the surname Ivery?
2,457 people in the United States had the surname Ivery in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 125,660 Americans. It ranked 12,597th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Ivery?
In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Ivery identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 7.7% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Ivery getting more or less common?
More common. 2,070 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,457 in 2010, up 19%.