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Eve vs Evelia

American parents have registered 29,510 Eves since 1880, against 1,594 Evelias. Eve is still ahead, with 577 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Eve Evelia

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 1991, when Eve had 136 and Evelia had 31.

Side by side

  Eve Evelia
Total US births 29,5101,594
Most in one year 73238
Babies in 2025 57738
Estimated living today 25,0001,400
Median age today 2134
Peak year 20171980
Best rank 436th girls2,486th girls
Rank in 2025 519th3,832nd
First recorded 18801912
Girls / boys 29,510 / 01,594 / 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 Evelias alive today are over 34; half the Eves are over 21. 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 Evelia
France 17,23515
England and Wales 15,07916

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 Evelia.