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Beverely vs Bevin

American parents have registered 1,173 Bevins since 1880, against 335 Beverelys. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Beverely against Bevin, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Beverely Bevin

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 87 years in which either name was published, Bevin for 56 years and Beverely for 31 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Beverely Bevin
Total US births 3351,173
Most in one year 1664
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2101,100
Median age today 7341
Peak year 19451978
Best rank 2,149th girls1,765th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19301950
Girls / boys 335 / 01,037 / 136

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Beverelys alive today are over 73; half the Bevins are over 41. That is 32 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Beverely and Bevin.