Ivy (first name)

Ivy is a female, and rarely a male, given name .

Origin and meaning

Ivy is English and translates as ivy . Together with names such as Daisy or Clover (German daisies , clover ), it is one of the common plant names for women in English.

Well-known namesake

• Ivy Baker Priest (1905–1975), American government official
• Ivy Benson (1913-1993), British band leader
• Ivy Close (1890–1968), British beauty queen and film actress
• Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969), English writer
• Ivy Dumont (* 1930), US Governor General of the Bahamas
• Ivy van den Heuvel (* 1988), Dutch ice hockey player
• Ivy Hewett (≈1915–?), Australian badminton player
• Ivy Kellerman Reed (1877–1968), American writer in the Esperanto language
• Ivy Latimer (born 1994), Australian actress
• Ivy Lee (1877–1934), American founder of modern public relations
• Ivy Litvinow (1889–1977), English writer
• Ivy Mairi (* 1988), Canadian singer and songwriter
• Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri (1937–2009), South African politician
• Ivy Lilian McClelland (1908-2006), British Romance philologist and Hispanicist
• Ivy Quainoo (* 1992), German pop singer
• Ivy Queen (* 1972), Puerto Rican reggaeton musician
• Ivy Taylor (* 1970), American politician
• Ivy Wolfe (* 1996), American porn actress

See also

• Ivy (disambiguation)