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Evelina vs Everleigh

American parents have registered 20,929 Everleighs since 1880, against 6,365 Evelinas. Everleigh is still ahead, with 1,615 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Evelina 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 145 years in which either name was published, Evelina for 129 years and Everleigh for 16 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Evelina Everleigh
Total US births 6,36520,929
Most in one year 3492,827
Babies in 2025 3491,615
Estimated living today 4,90021,000
Median age today 114
Peak year 20252020
Best rank 778th girls94th girls
Rank in 2025 778th194th
First recorded 18802008
Girls / boys 6,365 / 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 Evelinas alive today are over 11; half the Everleighs are over 4. That is 7 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Evelina Everleigh
England and Wales 1,2501,108
Ireland 19385
Scotland 1757
Northern Ireland 1024

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: Evelina and Everleigh.