Thirty years of Ivy
Ivy in numbers
Ivy has risen from 15 girls in 1996 to 1,698 in 2025, though it is below its peak of 2,245 in 2021. Its biggest three-year rise came between 2015 and 2018, from 1,275 to 2,104. It ranked 1,222nd in 1996, reached 5th in 2021 and ranks 9th now. On average it was given to 12 girls a year in the late 1990s, 70 in the 2000s, 1,200 in the 2010s and 2,043 in the 2020s so far.
† Shapes, averages and turning points are Baby Data calculations from the ONS counts.
Milestones
First year in each bandChange
- On last year-13%1,956 to 1,698
- 5 years-22%2,166 to 1,698
- 10 years+33%1,275 to 1,698
- 20 years+2,292%71 to 1,698
- Since 1996×11315 to 1,698
- Total, 1996 to 202525,001girls
† All changes and totals are Baby Data calculations from ONS counts. A total adds only the published years.
Across the three nations, 2025
Each from its own statistics office, never added togetherRank 9 · ONS · 1,956 in 2024
Rank 16 · NRS · 180 in 2024
Rank 39 · NISRA · 49 in 2024
England and Wales (ONS) count births in the calendar year; Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland (NISRA) count births registered in the year. Each comes from its own statistics office and they are never added together.
Year by year, 1996 to 2025 Show all 30 yearsHide the table
| Year | Rank | Babies | Change† | 1 in X† |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | 1,698 | -13% | 1 in 168 |
| 2024 | 5 | 1,956 | -2% | 1 in 148 |
| 2023 | 7 | 1,997 | -9% | 1 in 144 |
| 2022 | 6 | 2,195 | -2% | 1 in 134 |
| 2021 | 5 | 2,245 | +4% | 1 in 136 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2,166 | +0% | 1 in 138 |
| 2019 | 12 | 2,158 | +3% | 1 in 144 |
| 2018 | 14 | 2,104 | +16% | 1 in 152 |
| 2017 | 25 | 1,819 | +21% | 1 in 182 |
| 2016 | 33 | 1,509 | +18% | 1 in 225 |
| 2015 | 42 | 1,275 | +16% | 1 in 266 |
| 2014 | 54 | 1,103 | +27% | 1 in 307 |
| 2013 * | 66 | 867 | +37% | 1 in 394 |
| 2012 | 88 | 633 | +104% | 1 in 561 |
| 2011 | 168 | 310 | +41% | 1 in 1,138 |
| 2010 | 227 | 220 | +29% | 1 in 1,601 |
| 2009 | =281 | 170 | +21% | 1 in 2,024 |
| 2008 | 322 | 141 | +33% | 1 in 2,452 |
| 2007 | =390 | 106 | +39% | 1 in 3,165 |
| 2006 | =497 | 76 | +7% | 1 in 4,305 |
| 2005 | =494 | 71 | +92% | 1 in 4,440 |
| 2004 | =758 | 37 | +12% | 1 in 8,415 |
| 2003 | =799 | 33 | +50% | 1 in 9,183 |
| 2002 | =998 | 22 | +0% | 1 in 13,184 |
| 2001 | =962 | 22 | +10% | 1 in 13,181 |
| 2000 | =1,033 | 20 | +25% | 1 in 14,740 |
| 1999 | =1,216 | 16 | +129% | 1 in 18,913 |
| 1998 | =2,165 | 7 | -30% | n/a |
| 1997 | =1,666 | 10 | -33% | 1 in 31,351 |
| 1996 | =1,222 | 15 | 1 in 21,066 |
* ONS’s girls’ 2013 file repeats the May total as April, so the 2013 births total is about 1,360 too high and 1 in X for 2013 is slightly too high. 1 in X is not shown for girls in 1998: one monthly total is missing from the ONS girls’ 1998 file. Rank follows ONS: names with the same count share a rank (shown with =). “Under 3” means the name was given to fewer than 3 babies that year, so ONS did not publish it.
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Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; National Records of Scotland; NISRA. Exact spellings are counted separately and names given to fewer than 3 babies are not published. Figures marked † are Baby Data calculations. How we calculate
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