Irving
Irving is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 105 births. Its best rank was 93rd, in 1911.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1050.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19181,533 births
- Best rank
- #93in 1911
- Since 1880
- 44,273people given the name
The story in the numbers
44,273 boys have been named Irving in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 1,533 births — 0.15% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 105 births in 2024, against 1,533 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 27%. It has spent 119 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 3 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Irving | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 654 | |
| 1890s | 903 | |
| 1900s | 1,524 | |
| 1910s | 10,737 | |
| 1920s | 11,898 | |
| 1930s | 4,239 | |
| 1940s | 2,933 | |
| 1950s | 2,403 | |
| 1960s | 1,466 | |
| 1970s | 883 | |
| 1980s | 1,204 | |
| 1990s | 1,928 | |
| 2000s | 1,769 | |
| 2010s | 1,240 | |
| 2020s | 492 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Irving was the 108th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Irving
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alphonsepeak 1918
- Elmopeak 1920
- Wilburpeak 1918
- Orvillepeak 1920
- Orvalpeak 1918
- Solpeak 1918
- Morrispeak 1918
- Ellsworthpeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.