Ives
Meaning
yew tree (Old French if)
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Ives has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
1,490 people · the #6,294 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 142,857 · median age 31
Among people named Ives living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1990s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 47 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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