Given name & surname · also Danish
Iverson
Iverson is a surname from Danish, ultimately from Norwegian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Iverson comes from Danish, and ultimately from Norwegian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1891. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Iverson through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,241
- 2,138 boys · 103 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 149 babies
- 2025
- 139
- #1,413 for boys · #9,724 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +62%
- Rising fast
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 92% boys.
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 129 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 1,413 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 54.6% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. It also appeared in 10 birth records for girls in 2025. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (14). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,261 as a first name in 2020; 14,900 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Iverson’s family of names
In English usage, Iverson as a surname was borrowed from the Norwegian form IVERSEN.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Iverson
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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