Ivy

Ivy comes from the English name of the evergreen climbing plant, Old English ifig, and was adopted as a given name in the late Victorian era with other plant names. Because ivy keeps its leaves through winter and clings to what supports it, it has long stood for faithfulness, and it appears with holly in the English carol The Holly and the Ivy. In ancient Greece ivy was sacred to Dionysus, whose followers wore ivy crowns. In fiction, Poison Ivy is a villain in the Batman comics, and Ivy Compton-Burnett was an English novelist known for dialogue-driven family dramas.