Evelene vs Evelynn
American parents have registered 16,064 Evelynns since 1880, against 752 Evelenes. Evelynn is still ahead, with 1,012 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Evelene 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
Of the 113 years in which either name was published, Evelynn for 90 years and Evelene for 23 years. The lead changed hands 15 times.
- 1909–1914 Evelene ahead
- 1922–1925 Evelynn ahead
- 1926–1941 Evelene ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1942–2025 Evelynn ahead, apart from 2 short spells
9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Evelene | Evelynn | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 752 | 16,064 |
| Most in one year | 31 | 1,030 |
| Babies in 2025 | 5 | 1,012 |
| Estimated living today | 240 | 16,000 |
| Median age today | 78 | 7 |
| Peak year | 1927 | 2019 |
| Best rank | 1,456th girls | 311th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 14,942nd | 301st |
| First recorded | 1909 | 1914 |
| Girls / boys | 752 / 0 | 16,064 / 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.
Which name is older
Half of the Evelenes alive today are over 78; half the Evelynns are over 7. That is 71 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: Evelene and Evelynn.