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Evelena vs Everett

American parents have registered 137,101 Everetts since 1880, against 1,376 Evelenas. Everett is still ahead, with 4,366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Evelena against Everett, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Evelena Everett

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

Everett 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 1895, when Evelena had 11 and Everett had 207.

Side by side

  Evelena Everett
Total US births 1,376137,101
Most in one year 394,366
Babies in 2025 under 54,366
Estimated living today 45083,000
Median age today 7110
Peak year 19242025
Best rank 1,279th girls77th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked77th
First recorded 18851880
Girls / boys 1,376 / 01,201 / 135,900

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 Evelenas alive today are over 71; half the Everetts are over 10. That is 61 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.

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