Given name
Eivor
“careful”
Eivor is a feminine given name, probably from Old Norse. It is used in Swedish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Eivor probably goes back to a word meaning “careful.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2021. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eivor through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 56
- 43 boys · 13 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 9 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Eivor’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Eivor
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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