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Eve vs Evern

American parents have registered 29,510 Eves since 1880, against 53 Everns. Eve is still ahead, with 577 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Eve Evern

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 1922, when Eve had 81 and Evern had 9.

Side by side

  Eve Evern
Total US births 29,51053
Most in one year 7329
Babies in 2025 577under 5
Estimated living today 25,00017
Median age today 2177
Peak year 20171922
Best rank 436th girls3,014th boys
Rank in 2025 519thunranked
First recorded 18801922
Girls / boys 29,510 / 017 / 36

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 Everns alive today are over 77; half the Eves are over 21. That is 56 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: Eve and Evern.