Is Ivory a male or female name?
Ivory is predominantly associated with female records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns female at 63%, based on 22,847 observations.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 63%
- Sample size
- 22,847
- Confidence
- high
Ivory by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 62% | 22,254 | ssa |
| Canada CA | female | 99% | 439 | statcan |
| England and Wales GB | female | 100% | 142 | ons |
| Austria AT | female | 100% | 2 | statat |
Attested in 7 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · GB · US
Ivory over time
In the United States, 51.9% of the babies named Ivory in the 1890s were girls, against 95% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 52% | 187 |
| 1900s | 48% | 382 |
| 1910s | 44% | 936 |
| 1920s | 39% | 1,336 |
| 1930s | 37% | 1,224 |
| 1940s | 35% | 1,502 |
| 1950s | 26% | 2,039 |
| 1960s | 28% | 1,280 |
| 1970s | 38% | 1,125 |
| 1980s | 64% | 1,877 |
| 1990s | 71% | 1,660 |
| 2000s | 81% | 1,636 |
| 2010s | 91% | 3,842 |
| 2020s | 95% | 3,144 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Ivory with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Ivory&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Ivory
Is Ivory a male or female name?
Ivory is predominantly associated with female records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns female at 63%, based on 22,847 observations.
Why can the result for Ivory change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Ivory identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.