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Eve vs Evee

American parents have registered 29,510 Eves since 1880, against 680 Evees. Eve is still ahead, with 577 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eve against Evee, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eve Evee

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

Eve 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 2024, when Eve had 532 and Evee had 48.

Side by side

  Eve Evee
Total US births 29,510680
Most in one year 73248
Babies in 2025 57734
Estimated living today 25,000680
Median age today 218
Peak year 20172024
Best rank 436th girls3,277th girls
Rank in 2025 519th4,172nd
First recorded 18801996
Girls / boys 29,510 / 0680 / 0

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 Eves alive today are over 21; half the Evees are over 8. That is 13 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Eve Evee
England and Wales 15,079124

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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Related comparisons

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