Last Name IVES

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Meaning	The son of Ivo or Ive. Probably connected with Ives, the saint who gave the title to St. Ives in county Huntington (who, legend says, was a Persian bishop, and set up a hermitage on that spot), and Iva, similarly commemorated at St. Ives in county Cornwall. The great Ivo de Taillebois reminds us of Brittany; and St. Ivo de Chartres, imprisoned for his opposition to the adultery of Philip I, gave a natural impetus to the popularity of the name. Local: From a town named St. Ives, in the county of Huntingdon, England. O'Connor derives 'Ive' from 'Iber,' the place of 'Er,' the land of heroes, now pronounced Ive or 'Hy.' Gaelic, 'Ives.'

Origin	English, Irish, Croatian, Zimbabwean, Hungarian

Rank	4,058 (2000 US census)	4,070 (1990 US census)

Count	8,053 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

92.75%, or 7469 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
2%, or 161 total occurrences, as black,
0.5%, or 40 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.45%, or 117 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.63%, or 131 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.68%, or 135 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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