Ivie
A surname usually treated as a pet-form of the given name Ive, with spellings that overlap with Ivy and Ivey.
The #7,536 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 69,994 Americans shares it.
Etymology
This name is generally explained as coming from the medieval personal name Ive, with Ivie as a pet or diminutive form. Ive itself is related to the old given name derived from a Germanic root associated with the yew tree, and in English records the surname often appears in spellings such as Ivey and Ivy. In short, Ivie most likely began as "son of Ive" or as a surname taken from that familiar nickname-form.
History
Bardsley treats Ivie alongside Ivey and Ivy as a baptismal surname, and his London parish and marriage-register examples show the spelling in use by the 16th and 17th centuries. The form has remained relatively uncommon, especially compared with Ivey. Modern bearers in the United States likely descend from more than one local spelling tradition, since surname spelling was not fixed in earlier centuries.
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Fun fact
In older English records, the same family line might appear as Ivie, Ivey, or Ivy, depending on the clerk and the parish register.
From the historical record
“Eliiabethjin the Forest, asshe came from hunting, one clad like a savage man all in ivie': KichoU's Pro- gresses of Queen Elizabeth, i, 494. As with King, q.v., Greenmao or Greenleaf became the popular sobri- quet of the man who represented the character, and passed on to his”
— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, with special American instances