Entry № 4732 · English origin

Ivory Ivory — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EYE-vor-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Ivory white (the Côte d'Ivoire + James Ivory, Oscar-winning director)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "ivory white (the côte d'ivoire + james ivory, oscar-winning director)".

Ivory is from the Latin eboreus — "of ivory, the creamy-white material from elephant tusks." A top-500 US baby name from 1971 to 1998. A Room with a View (1985), Howards End (1992), and The Remains of the Day (1993) all earned multiple Academy Award nominations including Best Picture; Howards End won three Oscars including Best Adapted Screenplay; defined the modern English-period-piece genre.

Ivory white (the Côte d'Ivoire + James Ivory, Oscar-winning director) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Ivory
Transliteration
Ivory
Pronunciation
/ ˈaɪ.vər.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ivory stands.

Ivory does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ivorys before her.

Real people
Ivory Joe Hunter
American blues singer.
1914 – 1974
Ivory Aquino
Filipino-American actress.
born 1979
In fiction
Ivory
Various American culture.

Names connected to Ivory.

The number behind Ivory.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ivory reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.