Girl name origins & meanings
- Old English : Vine
Boy name origins & meanings
- Old English : Little archer
- Teutonic : Yew; archer
How Popular Is The Name Ives
Family name origins & meanings
- English (Norman) and French : from the Old French personal name Ive (modern French Yves), which is of Germanic origin, being a short form of various compound names containing the element iv-, īwa ‘yew’. The final -s is the mark of the Old French nominative case.