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Ivy Name Meaning and Origin

By Team Mom Loves Best
Updated
The three-letter plant name that climbed into the top 40 and stayed.

Short, sharp, and green all year, Ivy is a plant name that reads vintage and modern at once. It has none of the frill of the longer Victorian flower names, and that clipped, three-letter delivery is a large part of why parents keep choosing it in 2026.

The name comes straight from the Old English word for the climbing plant. The plant did the symbolic work long before the name did: it holds tight to whatever it grows on and it stays green through winter, which is how ivy came to stand for loyalty and for life that does not stop in the cold. Ancient Greece got there first, crowning Dionysus with it; the Victorians added the garden fashion that put it on birth certificates.

Verdict: Ivy is a strong pick if you want a name everyone can spell and say, one that sounds like a garden without sounding fragile. It is also genuinely popular now, sitting just inside the top 40 for American girls, so expect a second Ivy in the preschool class.

Ivy Overview

  • Meaning: Ivy means the evergreen climbing vine of the genus Hedera.
  • Gender: Ivy is a girls’ name in nearly all modern use, with a small male history in the records.
  • Origin: Old English, from ifig, the ordinary word for the ivy plant.
  • Pronunciation: EYE-vee.
  • Popularity: 39th for American girls in 2025; half of everyone ever recorded with the name was born after 2015.
  • Nicknames: Vee, Ives, Vivi, Vine, Poison, Vy, Vivvy, Ibby.
  • Variations: Ivey, Ivie, Ivye.
  • Namesakes: Ivy Queen, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Blue Ivy Carter.
In This Article

What Does Ivy Mean?

Ivy means the evergreen climbing plant, the woody vine of the genus Hedera (1). The word is Old English, ifig, and it has meant that plant and nothing else for as long as English has been written down.

The plant explains the symbolism. English ivy, Hedera helix, climbs as high as 98 feet up a tree, a cliff, or a wall, and it keeps its leaves through winter, so it became shorthand for holding on and for life that carries through the cold. Its botanical second name, helix, is Latin borrowed from the Greek word for a spiral, which is what the stems actually do.

In ancient Greece the symbolism was religious before it was romantic. Ivy belonged to Dionysus, who appears crowned with it across Greek art and literature, and because the plant never bares itself it stood for immortality.

Where Does the Name Ivy Come From?

Ivy comes from Old English ifig, the everyday word for the climbing plant, which travels back through Middle English ivi to a Proto-Germanic root that also produced the German Efeu. The word is ancient. The given name is not.

Ivy only became a common choice for babies during the Victorian flower-name craze of the late 1800s, when British parents started borrowing from the garden and names like Rose, Lily, and Daisy arrived alongside it. Floral names climbed steadily through the final decades of that century, helped along by floriography, the Victorian habit of reading a coded meaning into a particular plant.

The winter association was there from the start. Ivy is one of the two evergreens in “The Holly and the Ivy,” a carol that reached print in the early 1800s and turns up in William Hone’s 1823 book Ancient Mysteries Described, and both plants had been British winter decoration since the medieval period (2). A December baby named Ivy is following a very old habit.

How Popular is the Name Ivy?

Ivy ranked 39th among American girls’ names in 2025, with 5,117 babies given the name that year, or roughly one girl in 314 (3). That is the top tier of the list, and it is close to the name’s own ceiling: its best showing on record is 36th, in 2024, the year 5,343 girls were named Ivy.

01649329819131940197020002025peak 20241913: 106 girls, rank 4961914: 128 girls, rank 4911915: 162 girls, rank 4841916: 188 girls, rank 4641917: 154 girls, rank 5411918: 159 girls, rank 5641919: 147 girls, rank 5711920: 142 girls, rank 6021921: 143 girls, rank 6101922: 142 girls, rank 6111923: 102 girls, rank 7211924: 125 girls, rank 6651925: 124 girls, rank 6621926: 121 girls, rank 6561927: 112 girls, rank 6841928: 89 girls, rank 7561929: 79 girls, rank 7921930: 94 girls, rank 7201931: 98 girls, rank 6761932: 80 girls, rank 7561933: 87 girls, rank 6991934: 76 girls, rank 7701935: 71 girls, rank 8081936: 70 girls, rank 8071937: 69 girls, rank 8271938: 74 girls, rank 8221939: 72 girls, rank 8151940: 66 girls, rank 8821941: 69 girls, rank 8791942: 71 girls, rank 9331943: 71 girls, rank 9251944: 61 girls, rank 9961945: 61 girls, rank 9861946: 61 girls, rank 10921947: 119 girls, rank 8001948: 124 girls, rank 7701949: 129 girls, rank 7601950: 159 girls, rank 6701951: 165 girls, rank 6811952: 197 girls, rank 6291953: 204 girls, rank 6211954: 194 girls, rank 6661955: 268 girls, rank 5531956: 319 girls, rank 5241957: 354 girls, rank 5061958: 332 girls, rank 5301959: 318 girls, rank 5461960: 273 girls, rank 6041961: 210 girls, rank 7171962: 205 girls, rank 7201963: 176 girls, rank 7811964: 179 girls, rank 7721965: 198 girls, rank 7011966: 154 girls, rank 7951967: 134 girls, rank 8811968: 193 girls, rank 7011969: 241 girls, rank 6381970: 254 girls, rank 6481971: 214 girls, rank 7131972: 270 girls, rank 5931973: 237 girls, rank 6371974: 264 girls, rank 5991975: 288 girls, rank 5761976: 206 girls, rank 7091977: 251 girls, rank 6481978: 266 girls, rank 6291979: 323 girls, rank 5671980: 282 girls, rank 6461981: 279 girls, rank 6361982: 293 girls, rank 6141983: 292 girls, rank 6061984: 259 girls, rank 6671985: 377 girls, rank 5291986: 370 girls, rank 5501987: 370 girls, rank 5431988: 305 girls, rank 6451989: 278 girls, rank 7141990: 266 girls, rank 7691991: 228 girls, rank 8731992: 286 girls, rank 7401993: 422 girls, rank 5641994: 482 girls, rank 5171995: 614 girls, rank 4231996: 646 girls, rank 4061997: 688 girls, rank 3841998: 728 girls, rank 3831999: 759 girls, rank 3772000: 880 girls, rank 3522001: 836 girls, rank 3552002: 721 girls, rank 4042003: 749 girls, rank 4042004: 803 girls, rank 3862005: 1,045 girls, rank 3062006: 985 girls, rank 3352007: 1,128 girls, rank 3002008: 1,122 girls, rank 2992009: 1,021 girls, rank 3202010: 1,090 girls, rank 2992011: 1,217 girls, rank 2632012: 1,699 girls, rank 1862013: 2,101 girls, rank 1492014: 2,292 girls, rank 1462015: 2,507 girls, rank 1302016: 2,824 girls, rank 1122017: 2,783 girls, rank 1082018: 3,287 girls, rank 862019: 3,692 girls, rank 672020: 3,842 girls, rank 572021: 4,396 girls, rank 492022: 4,814 girls, rank 422023: 5,060 girls, rank 382024: 5,343 girls, rank 362025: 5,117 girls, rank 39
Babies named Ivy per million girl births, 1913 to 2025. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

The shape of the climb matters more than the rank. Ivy has appeared in all 146 years of the federal records, back to 1880, but for most of the 20th century it sat well down the list and drifted lower. The turn came in the 2000s and it has been steep ever since: half of the 82,713 girls ever recorded with the name were born after 2015.

For a parent choosing in 2026, that reads two ways. Ivy is not a risky name. It is inside the top 40, nobody asks how to spell it, and it will not date a child to one narrow decade the way a coined name can. It is also no longer a quiet find. The one thing worth watching is the small step back from 36th in 2024 to 39th in 2025, the first hint that the climb may be flattening near the top rather than pushing into the top 20.

How Do I Pronounce Ivy?

Ivy is pronounced EYE-vee, two syllables, stress firmly on the first, exactly like the plant. English has no competing pronunciation for it.

That is a practical advantage. There are no silent letters, no vowel a stranger can guess wrong, and none of the regional splits that follow names like Aria or Elena around. The only thing you will end up repeating is the spelling, since Ivey and Ivie both exist.

Is Ivy a Boy or Girl Name?

Ivy is a girls’ name in nearly all modern use: the Social Security Administration counted 5,117 girls named Ivy in 2025 against 7 boys. The boys’ column is not empty, though. The records hold 3,460 boys named Ivy since 1880, about 4 percent of everyone on the name’s file.

all girlshalfall boys1880195220251880: 87% girls, of 38 babies1881: 73% girls, of 52 babies1882: 84% girls, of 55 babies1883: 86% girls, of 51 babies1884: 86% girls, of 55 babies1885: 100% girls, of 50 babies1886: 80% girls, of 76 babies1887: 85% girls, of 66 babies1888: 89% girls, of 81 babies1889: 86% girls, of 71 babies1890: 89% girls, of 74 babies1891: 87% girls, of 71 babies1892: 81% girls, of 94 babies1893: 87% girls, of 95 babies1894: 89% girls, of 93 babies1895: 81% girls, of 93 babies1896: 89% girls, of 88 babies1897: 86% girls, of 104 babies1898: 89% girls, of 96 babies1899: 92% girls, of 73 babies1900: 80% girls, of 95 babies1901: 83% girls, of 82 babies1902: 88% girls, of 86 babies1903: 88% girls, of 75 babies1904: 85% girls, of 82 babies1905: 89% girls, of 84 babies1906: 89% girls, of 72 babies1907: 84% girls, of 83 babies1908: 81% girls, of 83 babies1909: 82% girls, of 84 babies1910: 76% girls, of 95 babies1911: 89% girls, of 98 babies1912: 76% girls, of 146 babies1913: 80% girls, of 133 babies1914: 71% girls, of 180 babies1915: 74% girls, of 220 babies1916: 76% girls, of 249 babies1917: 72% girls, of 214 babies1918: 71% girls, of 223 babies1919: 74% girls, of 200 babies1920: 73% girls, of 195 babies1921: 69% girls, of 208 babies1922: 74% girls, of 193 babies1923: 69% girls, of 148 babies1924: 70% girls, of 179 babies1925: 64% girls, of 193 babies1926: 70% girls, of 172 babies1927: 67% girls, of 167 babies1928: 65% girls, of 137 babies1929: 62% girls, of 128 babies1930: 65% girls, of 145 babies1931: 68% girls, of 144 babies1932: 62% girls, of 129 babies1933: 74% girls, of 118 babies1934: 70% girls, of 108 babies1935: 62% girls, of 114 babies1936: 72% girls, of 97 babies1937: 70% girls, of 99 babies1938: 72% girls, of 103 babies1939: 68% girls, of 106 babies1940: 75% girls, of 88 babies1941: 65% girls, of 107 babies1942: 65% girls, of 109 babies1943: 68% girls, of 104 babies1944: 61% girls, of 100 babies1945: 62% girls, of 98 babies1946: 60% girls, of 101 babies1947: 76% girls, of 156 babies1948: 81% girls, of 154 babies1949: 81% girls, of 159 babies1950: 82% girls, of 193 babies1951: 78% girls, of 213 babies1952: 86% girls, of 228 babies1953: 81% girls, of 251 babies1954: 84% girls, of 231 babies1955: 88% girls, of 305 babies1956: 92% girls, of 346 babies1957: 91% girls, of 389 babies1958: 89% girls, of 374 babies1959: 89% girls, of 357 babies1960: 91% girls, of 301 babies1961: 89% girls, of 236 babies1962: 89% girls, of 230 babies1963: 85% girls, of 208 babies1964: 87% girls, of 206 babies1965: 90% girls, of 219 babies1966: 86% girls, of 180 babies1967: 92% girls, of 146 babies1968: 88% girls, of 219 babies1969: 90% girls, of 268 babies1970: 90% girls, of 283 babies1971: 91% girls, of 236 babies1972: 92% girls, of 294 babies1973: 91% girls, of 261 babies1974: 94% girls, of 281 babies1975: 95% girls, of 303 babies1976: 91% girls, of 227 babies1977: 93% girls, of 269 babies1978: 96% girls, of 278 babies1979: 94% girls, of 345 babies1980: 95% girls, of 297 babies1981: 94% girls, of 297 babies1982: 94% girls, of 311 babies1983: 95% girls, of 307 babies1984: 96% girls, of 269 babies1985: 95% girls, of 397 babies1986: 97% girls, of 382 babies1987: 95% girls, of 388 babies1988: 98% girls, of 310 babies1989: 94% girls, of 295 babies1990: 93% girls, of 285 babies1991: 95% girls, of 240 babies1992: 98% girls, of 291 babies1993: 97% girls, of 435 babies1994: 96% girls, of 500 babies1995: 98% girls, of 627 babies1996: 98% girls, of 659 babies1997: 98% girls, of 705 babies1998: 100% girls, of 728 babies1999: 99% girls, of 770 babies2000: 99% girls, of 886 babies2001: 99% girls, of 844 babies2002: 99% girls, of 729 babies2003: 98% girls, of 762 babies2004: 99% girls, of 815 babies2005: 99% girls, of 1,058 babies2006: 99% girls, of 997 babies2007: 100% girls, of 1,133 babies2008: 99% girls, of 1,135 babies2009: 100% girls, of 1,021 babies2010: 99% girls, of 1,100 babies2011: 100% girls, of 1,223 babies2012: 99% girls, of 1,713 babies2013: 99% girls, of 2,115 babies2014: 99% girls, of 2,308 babies2015: 100% girls, of 2,519 babies2016: 100% girls, of 2,836 babies2017: 100% girls, of 2,796 babies2018: 100% girls, of 3,299 babies2019: 100% girls, of 3,704 babies2020: 100% girls, of 3,858 babies2021: 100% girls, of 4,417 babies2022: 99% girls, of 4,842 babies2023: 100% girls, of 5,083 babies2024: 100% girls, of 5,367 babies2025: 100% girls, of 5,124 babies
Share of American babies named Ivy who were girls, 1880 to 2025. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Almost all of that male use is historical. Ivy went to boys often enough in the early and middle of the 20th century to show up clearly in the split, and that share has shrunk to almost nothing since. Naming a boy Ivy today is a genuinely unusual choice rather than a revival of a living tradition, and the chart is the honest way to see it: point at any year and the two shares are there.

Variations of Ivy

Ivy is an English word name, so it has few true translations abroad. What it has instead is a small set of respellings.

  • Ivie: A vintage-looking respelling that reads a little softer on the page.
  • Ivey: More often a surname than a first name, which is exactly why some parents like it.
  • Ivye: A rare creative spelling that keeps the sound and adds a silent e.

Close relatives rather than variants: Hedera, the Latin name of the plant, works as a first name in its own right, and Ivanna, Ivory, and Ivette all yield Ivy as a short form without being versions of it.

Nicknames for Ivy

Three letters leaves nothing to cut, so nicknames for Ivy add rather than shorten.

  • Vee: The one most families land on, built off the middle sound.
  • Ives: Surname-style and a bit formal, useful for a kid who wants something sturdier at school.
  • Vivi: Doubles the V the way the nicknames for Vivienne and Genevieve do.
  • Vine: Leans all the way into the plant.
  • Poison: The teenage version, borrowed from the comics.

Rarer picks that still work out loud: Vy, which keeps only the second syllable, Vivvy, and Ibby.

Names Similar to Ivy

If you like Ivy but want to see the neighbors, these share its botanical roots, its short length, or its vintage cast.

  • Iris: The other vintage I plant name, with the same clean two-syllable shape.
  • Eve: Shares the strong V and the three-letter build, and it lands with the same quiet weight.
  • Hazel: A tree and a color, from the same vintage shelf as Ivy and equally at home on a grandmother.
  • Fern: The softer, rarer botanical option for parents who want the greenery without the crowd.
  • Isla: Opens on the same EYE sound but carries a Scottish, watery origin rather than a garden one.
  • Olive: The natural substitute if what you like is the V and the color green.
  • Ruby: A gemstone instead of a plant, with the same short, spirited, turn-of-the-century feel.
  • Flora: Latin for flower, and the most openly Victorian name on this list.

Names That Moved With Ivy

Set Ivy against the other girls’ names of the last 45 years and a handful trace nearly the same curve, rising in the same years at the same speed. These are not sound-alikes. They are our reading of public birth data, and what they really mark is the set of names a parent drawn to Ivy tends to be weighing at the same moment.

IvyCatalinaAuroraSaylor196519952025
Ivy, Catalina, Aurora, Saylor, each scaled to its own peak so the shapes can be compared, 1965 to 2025. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

The three closest are the ones plotted above.

  • Catalina: Still climbing, with 2025 as both its peak year and its best rank, 111th.
  • Aurora: The biggest name of the group, 15th in 2025, which is also its best rank and its peak year.
  • Saylor: The most modern of the three. Its best rank so far was 207th in 2022, and it sat 217th in 2025 on a rising trend.
  • Lilith: Not plotted, but on the same track: best rank 232nd in 2023, 277th in 2025, still rising.
  • Ember: Also unplotted. It peaked in 2024 at 135th and sat 154th in 2025.
  • Isla: Closest to Ivy in scale, 28th in 2025, its best rank and its peak year.

None of this comes from a government recommendation, and none of it is about how the names sound. It is what the birth curves show, which makes the list a useful sibling shortlist and a fair warning about which names will be in the same classroom.

Middle Names for Ivy

Ivy is short and ends on a vowel, so it takes almost any length of middle name. The one thing to test out loud is a middle name that starts with a vowel, since Ivy Elena tends to blur.

Classic and Elegant

These ground Ivy in something older and more formal.

  • Ivy Elizabeth
  • Ivy Catherine
  • Ivy Alexandra
  • Ivy Charlotte
  • Ivy Margaret
  • Ivy Victoria

Whimsical and Nature-Inspired

Lean the other way and let the botanical theme run.

  • Ivy Clementine
  • Ivy Wren
  • Ivy Juniper
  • Ivy Celeste
  • Ivy Aurora
  • Ivy Willow

Short and Snappy

Two beats plus one makes a full name that is easy to call across a yard.

  • Ivy June
  • Ivy Mae
  • Ivy Kate
  • Ivy Quinn
  • Ivy Blair
  • Ivy Jean

Sibling Names for Ivy

Ivy sits between old-fashioned and current, so it pairs in both directions. The names that rose alongside it in the data are the safest bet for a sibset that sounds chosen by the same person.

For a Brother

  • Jasper: A stone name with the same vintage cast.
  • Arthur: Storybook formality next to Ivy’s plainness.
  • Leo: Short, punchy, and drawn from nature, like Ivy.
  • Felix: Shares the scrappy consonant energy.
  • Theo: Another short vintage revival, and the vowel ending matches.

For a Sister

  • Violet: The obvious sister; both are Victorian plants with a V.
  • Cora: Short, sweet, and from the same revival shelf.
  • Alice: A literary classic that balances the greenery.
  • Willow: Doubles the plant theme without rhyming.
  • Aurora: One of the names that climbed on Ivy’s exact schedule, and 15th in 2025.
  • Ember: Another of the peers, rarer than Aurora at 154th in 2025.

Famous People Named Ivy

  • Ivy Queen: Born Martha Ivelisse Pesante Rodriguez, the Puerto Rican singer and songwriter known as the Queen of Reggaeton. She started out in the San Juan collective The Noise, went solo in 1996, and released her debut album En Mi Imperio, which Sony Discos picked up for distribution in 1997.
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett: The English novelist (1884 to 1969) who wrote books built almost entirely from dialogue, dissecting middle-class Edwardian families. She won the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Mother and Son and was made a Dame in 1967.
  • Blue Ivy Carter: The daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z, born in 2012, whose name put Ivy in front of an enormous audience at exactly the moment it was starting to climb.
  • Ivy Latimer: The Australian actress known for the series Mako: Island of Secrets.
  • Ivy Duke: A British star of the silent film era.

Ivy in Pop Culture

  • Poison Ivy: The DC Comics botanist Pamela Isley, who debuted in the June 1966 issue of Batman and was created by writer Robert Kanigher and artist Sheldon Moldoff. She is the reason the name reads a little dangerous to comics readers.
  • Ivy Walker: The blind, brave lead of M. Night Shyamalan’s film The Village.
  • “ivy”: The tenth track on Taylor Swift’s album Evermore, released December 11, 2020, a folk song about a married woman and a secret love.
  • Ivy Tilsley: A long-running character on the British soap opera Coronation Street.
  • Ivy Dickens: A character from the teen drama Gossip Girl.

FAQs About the Name Ivy

Is Ivy a Rare Name?

No. Ivy ranked 39th among American girls’ names in 2025, which puts it just inside the top 40 and well past rare. It was genuinely uncommon for most of the 20th century, and the entire climb has happened since the 2000s, so plenty of adults still hear it as an unusual choice while it is now a standard one in a preschool room.

What Is Ivy a Symbol Of?

Ivy symbolizes loyalty, fidelity, and life that continues through winter. The plant earns both readings: it grips its support and will not release it, and it stays green when everything around it is bare. In ancient Greece the same plant belonged to Dionysus, who is shown crowned with it, and because it is evergreen it stood there for immortality. In his cult it complemented the grapevine: wine for hot passion, ivy for the slower, longer-lasting kind.

Is Ivy a Royal Name?

No. Ivy has no tradition in Britain’s reigning family the way Elizabeth, Charlotte, and Victoria do, and it does not appear among the current royal children’s names. It still reads aristocratic to a lot of people, partly because of the ivy-covered English country house and partly because of the Ivy League, but neither of those is royalty.

What Is the Latin Name for Ivy?

The Latin name is Hedera, the classical Roman word for the plant and now its botanical genus. English ivy is Hedera helix, and helix came into Latin from the Greek word for a spiral. Hedera works as a given name in its own right if you want something rarer than Ivy that means exactly the same thing.

What Does the Name Ivy Mean Spiritually?

Spiritually, Ivy is read as a name of constancy: eternal life, faithfulness, and an attachment that survives the winter. That reading comes from the plant’s own behavior rather than from any single religious text. In carol tradition ivy stands beside holly as one of the two evergreens of the darkest part of the year, which is where most of its Christian association comes from.

Is Ivy Considered a Christmas Name?

Yes. Ivy is one of the two plants in “The Holly and the Ivy,” a carol that reached print in the early 1800s and appears in William Hone’s 1823 Ancient Mysteries Described, and both plants had been British winter decoration since the medieval period. That makes it a quiet December name, far less on the nose than Noelle or Holly.

Can Ivy Be a Nickname for a Longer Name?

Yes. Ivy works as a short form for Ivanna, Ivory, Ivette, and Ivalyn, and some families arrive at it sideways from Vivienne. Using it that way gives a child a longer legal name for a resume and the short plant name for everyday life, which is a common compromise when one parent wants formality.

Does the Name Ivy Have Negative Connotations?

The only one is poison ivy, and it rarely lands. In practice the association people reach for is the DC character, a botanist rather than a rash, and children work that out early. Set against the older symbolism of loyalty and evergreen life, the itchy plant is a small price, and it has never slowed the name down.

Is Ivy an Old Lady Name?

Yes, in the sense that it now reads as both vintage and current. But it was never actually common in earlier eras: for most of the 20th century it ranked only in the 400s to 600s, the sound of that era without the numbers to match. What sets it apart from a purely nostalgic pick is that it never disappeared, it appears in every one of the 146 years of federal records, and its current climb has carried it to its best rank ever, 36th in 2024.

What Flowers Go Well With Ivy in a Bouquet?

Ivy pairs traditionally with holly for winter arrangements, the same duo named in the carol “The Holly and the Ivy.” That habit of picking a plant for what it stands for traces back to floriography, the Victorian practice of assigning a coded meaning to a particular plant. Florists also like ivy structurally, since the trailing stems loosen a bouquet that would otherwise sit too tight.

Why Was Ivy Sacred in Ancient Greece?

Ivy belonged to Dionysus, the god of wine and festivity, who is regularly shown wearing an ivy crown in Greek art and literature. Because the plant is evergreen it stood for immortality, and in his cult it balanced the grapevine: wine for hot passion, ivy for the slower and longer-lasting kind. That is the oldest layer of the name’s meaning, and it predates the Victorian flower craze by roughly two thousand years.

Does Ivy Work as a Middle Name?

Yes, and it is one of the easiest middle names to place. Two short syllables and an open ending mean it rarely collides with the surname, and it sits comfortably behind long first names (Genevieve Ivy, Alexandra Ivy) and short ones (Mae Ivy) alike. It is also the usual way families honor a grandmother named Ivy without giving the name top billing.

Is Ivy Hard to Spell?

No, though you will occasionally hear Ivey or Ivie offered back to you. The plain spelling is by far the most common and it is what people default to, since they already know the word. If you want the vintage look, Ivie is the softer respelling and Ivey reads as a surname, but both cost your child a correction every time she says her name.

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