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Ivy-Lee

Gender
Girl
Say it
EYE-vee-LEE
Origin
English
UK rank, 2025
#4,276 for girls

Ivy-Lee is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “ivy plant + clearing, meadow”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).

What does Ivy-Lee mean?

English: Ivy + Lee

“ivy plant + clearing, meadow”

Joins Ivy (English, “ivy plant”) and Lee (English, “clearing, meadow”).

Meanings borrowed from Ivy and Lee.

Is Ivy-Lee a girl's or a boy's name?

Ivy-Lee is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Ivy-Lee in the UK?

Rank in 2025
4,276th among girls
Babies in 2025
5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising fast up 400% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Ivy-Lee, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2023, with 5 girls.

In 2025, 27 girls in the UK were given Ivy-Lee or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,110, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.

2013Busiest: 5 in 20232025
Ivy-Lee in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#4,276
20245#4,253
20235#4,251
20224#4,870
20210–
20200–
20190–
20183#5,896
20170–
20164#4,980
20150–
20140–
20131#7,690

Names like Ivy-Lee

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Ivy-Lee

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Ivy-Lee: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ivy-lee, updated 20 October 2026.