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The first name 
Iven

Iven is a male first name.

Iven – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Iven in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Iven in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Iven by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Iven ranks at #4,520. That means there are 4,519 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Iven.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Iven

Iven -
swimming against the tide

If your name is Iven your parents may be very proud to let their son swim against the tide: The name Iven has never ranked higher than position 1,404 in our statistics and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea to choose the name Iven for their son. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1940 to give the name more often than usual – only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Iven because that was several decades ago – unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in your neighborhood.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Iven was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

2022 - Looking for Iven?

As in the last century, Iven is still an exception. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 17 times in the entire USA. So a Iven of 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.

Iven -
at home in

If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Iven, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in . However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Iven living in one state or another. (If your name is Iven and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 302,438 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Iven. So if your name is Iven, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Iven already makes you quite special.

Iven has 4 letters 
and begins with an I

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter I is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an I. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With four letters, the name Iven is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with an I, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with I that are quite popular, the most common at present is Isaac.

Other names with 
I, v, e and n

If you take all the letters in the name Iven – I, v, e and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Evin or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Iven

If your name is Iven and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Iven

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Iven, you can simply say:

Igloo

Violin

Elephant

Nut

This is how the name Iven is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Iven in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Iven

Iven

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Iven

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Iven is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

I
V
E
N

Have you ever waved the name Iven

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

I
V
E
N

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Iven sounds like this: