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The name Irving is of English origin, and means sea friend. The table below indicates the number of times the name Irving has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Irving**
Use of the Name Irving for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
41,153	6,959	3,616	1,517	929	394	180

The table below indicates the number of times the name Irving has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Irving**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	203	60
1881	192	60
1882	208	61
1883	233	46
1884	176	80
1885	170	78
1886	219	60
1887	208	55
1888	170	89
1889	201	65
1890	193	69
1891	173	75
1892	233	58
1893	155	95
1894	151	102
1895	140	110
1896	188	87
1897	158	98
1898	150	113
1899	158	95
1900	184	116
1901	182	80
1902	168	104
1903	149	126
1904	133	160
1905	142	149
1906	125	170
1907	123	196
1908	114	225
1909	134	201
1910	118	270
1911	92	430
1912	94	815
1913	104	862
1914	100	1,154
1915	107	1,384
1916	109	1,372
1917	106	1,471
1918	108	1,534
1919	111	1,446
1920	117	1,475
1921	124	1,415
1922	124	1,371
1923	124	1,382
1924	137	1,256
1925	141	1,166
1926	143	1,164
1927	155	1,015
1928	166	877
1929	184	757
1930	207	641
1931	215	581
1932	237	511
1933	263	407
1934	266	421
1935	287	353
1936	293	341
1937	292	339
1938	307	319
1939	310	324
1940	336	291
1941	328	320
1942	354	296
1943	340	323
1944	368	265
1945	368	264
1946	392	276
1947	383	321
1948	396	293
1949	401	280
1950	389	300
1951	404	282
1952	443	253
1953	454	247
1954	460	247
1955	471	240
1956	508	222
1957	515	223
1958	528	209
1959	588	176
1960	560	198
1961	556	199
1962	598	168
1963	619	159
1964	658	139
1965	705	111
1966	676	121
1967	648	133
1968	683	122
1969	732	114
1970	718	131
1971	796	102
1972	790	103
1973	859	86
1974	992	68
1975	907	82
1976	949	77
1977
1978	971	79
1979	982	81
1980	944	90
1981	970	86
1982
1983	974	82
1984
1985
1986
1987	899	109
1988	524	302
1989	671	222
1990	684	219
1991	552	337
1992	647	254
1993	765	187
1994	720	211
1995	837	165
1996	889	152
1997	993	130
1998
1999	997	141
2000	837	191
2001	965	159
2002	881	185
2003	806	214
2004	923	180
Totals:		41,153		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Irving as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Irving appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 119 times during the last 125 years.

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