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Beverlee vs Beverley

American parents have registered 13,469 Beverleys since 1880, against 2,297 Beverlees. Beverley is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Beverlee against Beverley, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Beverlee Beverley

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 109 years in which either name was published, Beverley for 105 years and Beverlee for 4 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Beverlee Beverley
Total US births 2,29713,469
Most in one year 73414
Babies in 2025 812
Estimated living today 1,2006,400
Median age today 7274
Peak year 19301938
Best rank 831st girls309th girls
Rank in 2025 10,917th8,362nd
First recorded 19151912
Girls / boys 2,297 / 013,062 / 407

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 Beverleys alive today are over 74; half the Beverlees are over 72. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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