Ivy

Ivy meaning

Ivy is an international girl's name of Old English origin.

Ivy, the evergreen climbing plant

Also used to mean: ivy plant, faithfulness

Ivy is the name of the evergreen climbing plant, and it is one of the oldest plant words in English: Bosworth-Toller's Old English dictionary records it as īfig, "ivy". Because ivy stays green all winter and clings to what it grows on, it became a traditional Christmas decoration, as in the carol The Holly and the Ivy, and name lists sometimes add "faithfulness", a symbolic meaning rather than a dictionary one. Like Daisy and Lily, it belongs to the family of English flower and plant names. Short and bright, it is easy to say with Indian surnames.

Source: Bosworth-Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898), entry 20443 · entry ífig · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026

References: Bosworth-Toller, ífig

Popularity abroad

• #39 United States, girls 2025 (down 3 from 36 in 2024)
  US Social Security Administration
• #9 England and Wales, girls 2025
  Office for National Statistics

Official birth registrations. India publishes no national name statistics.

Spellings

Ivy · Ivey · Ivie

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