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Evelean vs Everleigh

American parents have registered 20,929 Everleighs since 1880, against 155 Eveleans. Everleigh is still ahead, with 1,615 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Evelean against Everleigh, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Evelean Everleigh

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

Of the 39 years in which either name was published, Evelean for 21 years and Everleigh for 18 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Evelean Everleigh
Total US births 15520,929
Most in one year 142,827
Babies in 2025 under 51,615
Estimated living today 5021,000
Median age today 814
Peak year 19222020
Best rank 2,479th girls94th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked194th
First recorded 19222008
Girls / boys 155 / 020,924 / 5

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 Eveleans alive today are over 81; half the Everleighs are over 4. That is 77 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: Evelean and Everleigh.