How common is the surname Ivy?

13,524 people in the United States had the surname Ivy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 22,829 Americans. It ranked 2,667th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Ivy?

In the 2010 Census, 55% of people named Ivy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 39% as Black (not Hispanic).

Is the surname Ivy getting more or less common?

More common. 12,760 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 13,524 in 2010, up 6.0%.

Is Ivy also a first name?

Yes. Ivy is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.

The surname Ivy

A surname, carried by 13,524 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex I100 Also a first name

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ivy is more common than 98.4% of them.

Origin

From ivy, the name of a plant. An ivy branch used to be hung outside an establishment to advertise that it sold alcohol, so it may originally been an occupationational surname for the proprietor of such an establishment.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 13,524 people named Ivy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 22,829 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 12,760.

#2,667

rank among US surnames

13,524

people in 2010

4.6

per 100,000 Americans

+6%

change since 2000 (was #2,602)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,658	Morrissey	13,564	22,762
#2,659	Weinstein	13,563	22,764
#2,660	Jarrell	13,562	22,765
#2,661	Rector	13,559	22,771
#2,662	Loyd	13,547	22,791
#2,663	Solorio	13,537	22,808
#2,664	Garvin	13,536	22,809

Who is named Ivy

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

55% of people named Ivy identified as white (not Hispanic), 39% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 55%
Black (not Hispanic) 39%
Two or more races 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Ivy

Ivey

Ivy has the Soundex code I100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code I100.

Questions

Where does the surname Ivy come from?: From ivy, the name of a plant. An ivy branch used to be hung outside an establishment to advertise that it sold alcohol, so it may originally been an occupationational surname for the proprietor of such an establishment.
How common is the surname Ivy?: 13,524 people in the United States had the surname Ivy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 22,829 Americans. It ranked 2,667th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Ivy?: In the 2010 Census, 55% of people named Ivy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 39% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Ivy getting more or less common?: More common. 12,760 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 13,524 in 2010, up 6.0%.
Is Ivy also a first name?: Yes. Ivy is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.