Iver

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Iver: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Iver: Recorded since 1945, its highest recorded position is #26, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
89times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#26highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 2013–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2013	#4685
2016	#3079
2017	#3449
2018	#2693
2019	#1986
2020	#2404
2021	#1688
2022	#1366
2023	#1701
2024	#1517

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 78 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #39 among boys in Norway, #478 among boys in Scotland, #1517 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #256 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #26 among boys in Norway, in 2023 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #34 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Iver appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 78 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 4,200 births with the name.

Iver across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Iver's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#256 (1945)	#26 (2023)	#34 (2025)	78 of 81	4,200 (1945–2025)	202 (2023)
England and Wales · Boys	#4685 (2013)	#1366 (2022)	#1517 (2024)	10 of 12	104 (2013–2024)	19 (2022)

Iver by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Iver in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	66	5 of 10	13
1950s	109	10 of 10	11
1960s	84	9 of 10	9
1970s	91	10 of 10	9
1980s	93	8 of 10	12
1990s	285	10 of 10	29
2000s	922	10 of 10	92
2010s	1,531	10 of 10	153
2020sbusiest	1,019	6 of 10	170

Across Norway · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 170 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2022 and 2023, when recorded births rose by 47, from 155 to 202.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Iver appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #26 in Norway in 2023.

Iver's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1517	17	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1701	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1366	19	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1688	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2404	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1986	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2693	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3079	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#34	186	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#39	173	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#26	202	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#43	155	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#44	146	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#30	157	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#40	166	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#41	172	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#44	166	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#39	185	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#46	157	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#62	138	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#57	145	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#65	132	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#72	129	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#63	141	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#75	122	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#81	114	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#74	115	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#91	92	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#83	100	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#86	92	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#98	79	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#86	81	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#107	64	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#117	63	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#138	49	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#134	52	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#156	41	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#213	26	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#232	23	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#270	18	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#263	20	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#231	27	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#369	11	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#287	18	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#357	13	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#298	16	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#350	13	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#421	10	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#385	11	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#382	11	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#370	12	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#502	7	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#578	5	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#484	7	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#470	7	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#395	10	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#462	8	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#350	12	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#350	12	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#395	10	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#390	10	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#378	10	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#405	8	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#425	7	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#404	8	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#336	10	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#284	13	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#347	9	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#305	11	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#305	10	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#352	8	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#270	12	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#273	11	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#272	11	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#250	13	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#301	8	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#249	11	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#312	7	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#264	10	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#255	11	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#222	15	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#181	21	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#254	11	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#222	14	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#273	10	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#256	10	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#478	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 78 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #26, first reached in 2023.

It held a top-100 place in 24 years, 24 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 202 births, registered in Norway in 2023.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2013, and 79 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Ivar · #28, 81y
Ivaylo · #2404, 11y
Ivey · #2458, 12y
Ivie · #298, 21y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Johan · #31, 81y
Nils · #21, 81y
Sonja · #35, 81y
Thor · #39, 81y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Brit · #26, 53y
Julia · #26, 70y
Siri · #26, 81y
Yvonne · #26, 76y

Iver was ranked #26 in Norway · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Iver and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Iver without appearing here.

Iver moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1701 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1517 and #5119.
Willow Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2693 and #2445 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1986 and #4702.
Garry Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3079 and #3079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #2693 and #4749.
Anders Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2693 and #2259 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1986 and #3937.

Moved ahead of Iver

Tobias Compare
In 1976 they stood at #395 and #409 in Norway · Boys; by 1977 that had become #470 and #258.
William Compare
In 1974 they stood at #350 and #365 in Norway · Boys; by 1975 that had become #462 and #258.
Oliver Compare
In 1989 they stood at #357 and #434 in Norway · Boys; by 1990 that had become #287 and #231.
Emil Compare
In 1965 they stood at #336 and #374 in Norway · Boys; by 1966 that had become #404 and #356.

Moved the opposite way to Iver

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Iver went from #256 to #34 while Anders went from #55 to #293.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Iver went from #256 to #34 while Arild went from #32 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Iver went from #256 to #34 while Arne went from #6 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Iver went from #256 to #34 while Bjørn went from #3 to #56.

Moved the same way as Iver

Daniel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Iver went from #256 to #34 and Daniel from #280 to #66.
David Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Iver went from #256 to #34 and David from #167 to #88.
Emil Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Iver went from #256 to #34 and Emil from #271 to #2.
Even Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Iver went from #256 to #34 and Even from #180 to #42.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #26 in Norway in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Iver

Iver at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Iver across 2 official records

Iver by decade in Norway · Boys

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Iver across 2 official records

Iver by decade in Norway · Boys

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