Boy · Scots
Irving
Say it: UR-ving
Meaning
A Scottish surname from a place name in Dumfriesshire.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Popular in America around 1900, partly in honour of Washington Irving.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1910s
In the United States
- 43,960 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1912, about 1 in 528 boys
- 92 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Irving Berlin, songwriter
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Where this comes from
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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