The Ivie surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,411 people carried this name — #7,536 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 66,700 people counted. That is up 4% from 4,255 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Ivie surname

As an English and Welsh surname

Bardsley classes it as a baptismal name, from a given name: ‘the son of Ive’.

His entry covers Ivey, Ivie and Ivy.

From Charles W. Bardsley, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, with Special American Instances (London: Henry Frowde, 1901), p. 422 · public domain.

In print

Ivie in American newspapers,
1899.

Newspaper page from The News & Observer carrying the name Ivie
The News & Observer 1899-12-24

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Ivie in Australian newspapers,
1850s–1970s.

2,580 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Ivie. The most, 1,098, date from the 1940s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in the Australian Capital Territory, at 15.4 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 903
Victoria 859
ACT (Canberra) 254
Queensland 249
Western Australia 108
Tasmania 102
South Australia 98
Northern Territory 2

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Ivie.

Who carried it

People named Ivie,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Mike Ivie
    Mike Ivie 1952–2023 · baseball player
  • Edward Ivie d. 1698
  • John Ivie 1580–1665 · goldsmith
  • Edward Ivie 1678–1745 · bishop
  • Edward Ivie 1678–1745 · bishop
  • Halleen Nichol 1903–1994

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Ivie,
in the records of 2 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States202 records

202 records of the Ivie name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 143
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 40
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 13
  • Irish Famine arrivals at New York, 1846–1851 2
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Dennis F. Ivie

    Born 1915 in Missouri. Enlisted 1941 at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; farm hand. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1989, buried at Fayetteville National Cemetery, Arkansas.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Cathne Ivie

    Arrived at New York in 1850 aboard the Pessore from Liverpool, aged 22. From Ireland.

    U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Clyde Lee Ivie

    U.S. Air Force veteran of the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Born 1932, died 1994; buried at Florida National Cemetery, Florida.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 202 records for Ivie in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

Australia1 record

1 record of the Ivie name in Australia Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923
  1. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Richard Ivie

    Arrived in Victoria in 1855 aboard the Nimrod, aged 21; English.

    Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0)

Counts: Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

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