St Ives

Meaning

Proper Noun

• coastal town/and/civil parish with a town council in Cornwall (county) England (constituent country).
• market town Cambridgeshire (county) England (constituent country), formerly in Huntingdonshire.
• village Dorset (county) England (constituent country) .
• suburb city, Sydney New South Wales (state).

Origin

• Seen from 1284. From St Ia, a Cornish saint.
• Seen from 1110. From Ivo of Ramsey, a Cornish saint whose relics were found here.
• Seen from 1167. 'Place overgrown with ivy' from Old English *īfet. Saint added more recently in reference to other settlements called St Ives.
• Named in 1900, likely from either the Cornish town or after Isaac Ellis Ives, a local politician.