Meaning and background
The story behind Ivory
Ivory has a material-word history through French and Latin, with a later colour use. The deeper route is qualified, so one certain earliest language is not supplied here. An owner may be thinking of a pale shade, a musical association or a personal reference rather than the material itself. Keep that intention clear. The name offers a fuller written alternative to a short colour word, and its visual association does not require the dog to have a matching coat.
- Origin
- English material word borrowed through French from Latin, later also used as a colour term. Source
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About Ivory
Recorded as a dog’s name
Ivory appears in 11 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/aɪvɚi/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the first syllable in the recorded US readings.
Other dictionary readings and notation
/aɪvɚi/ · primary stress on syllable 1AY1 V ER0 IY0
/aɪvɹi/ · primary stress on syllable 1AY1 V R IY0
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Sources and research notes (2)
Dictionary readings have 2 or 3 syllables.
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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