Ïrving

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ïrving is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of the Scottish habitational surname Irvine, probably from a Celtic word cognate with Welsh ir, yr (“fresh”) + afon (“river”).

  • ECEcuador1 in 15K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 15K
  • USUnited States1 in 23K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

14,717 people, 2020

Record sources
313 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Irving in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Variant of the Scottish habitational surname Irvine, probably from a Celtic word cognate with Welsh ir, yr (“fresh”) + afon (“river”).

Cited for this meaning 6

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Ïrving counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ïrving is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States14,7171 in 23K15KIrving313
VE Venezuela1,1361 in 25K1.1K—33
EC Ecuador1,1061 in 15K1.1K—27
BR Brazil3211 in 660K321—68
CR Costa Rica1791 in 28K179—29
GY Guyana491 in 15K49——

14,717 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ïrving under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ïrving mean, and where does it come from?
Variant of the Scottish habitational surname Irvine, probably from a Celtic word cognate with Welsh ir, yr (“fresh”) + afon (“river”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
Is Ïrving a male or female name?
Ïrving is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Ïrving have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Ïrving, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled irving.
Where is Ïrving most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ïrving is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ïrving?
In the United States, the national register counted 14,717 people named Ïrving in 2020, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ïrving”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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