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Evee vs Evelynn

American parents have registered 16,064 Evelynns since 1880, against 680 Evees. Evelynn is still ahead, with 1,012 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Evee against Evelynn, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Evee Evelynn

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

Evelynn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1996, when Evee had 5 and Evelynn had 25.

Side by side

  Evee Evelynn
Total US births 68016,064
Most in one year 481,030
Babies in 2025 341,012
Estimated living today 68016,000
Median age today 87
Peak year 20242019
Best rank 3,277th girls311th girls
Rank in 2025 4,172nd301st
First recorded 19961914
Girls / boys 680 / 016,064 / 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.

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 Evee Evelynn
England and Wales 124421

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: Evee and Evelynn.