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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Ival

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

297

peak year 1939

More common than

77%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1939
17 births
Best rank
#1,468
in 1911
First recorded
1911
#1,468 that year
Last recorded
1950
no later published record
Average birth year
1928
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
33 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 193917#1,672Peak
  2. 193015#2,012
  3. 194015#1,846
  4. 192714#2,238
  5. 191513#2,118

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,468 in 1911 · peak births 17 in 1939

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 70% boys■ 30% girls

297 boys · 127 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Ival has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.