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Evan vs Evann

American parents have registered 292,426 Evans since 1880, against 772 Evanns. Evan is still ahead, with 2,462 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Evan against Evann, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Evan Evann

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

Evan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Evan had 3,298 and Evann had 14.

Side by side

  Evan Evann
Total US births 292,426772
Most in one year 10,41040
Babies in 2025 2,462under 5
Estimated living today 279,000760
Median age today 2120
Peak year 20072009
Best rank 40th boys3,721st boys
Rank in 2025 153rdunranked
First recorded 18801983
Girls / boys 4,725 / 287,701336 / 436

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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Evan Evann
France 49,3955,080
England and Wales 14,89019
Switzerland 2,02336
Belgium 1,3315

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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