The Ives Last Name

If you carry the Ives surname, the numbers below show how widely it is found.

• Local archives often hold baptisms and marriages that never reached online indexes.
• Ives ranked 4,317 in the 2010 US Census, with 8,233 people answering to the name. That puts it among the top 5,000 US surnames.
• We do not guess at meanings: where the dictionaries are silent on Ives, the family's own records come first.

Family crest and blazon

Coats of arms were borne by individual families. If arms are recorded under the Ives name, our researchers explain whose they were and how they were blazoned. Get the complete Ives report, with a museum-style coat of arms.