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Evelyne vs Everleigh

American parents have registered 20,929 Everleighs since 1880, against 4,177 Evelynes. Everleigh is still ahead, with 1,615 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Evelyne 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 126 years in which either name was published, Evelyne for 109 years and Everleigh for 17 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Evelyne Everleigh
Total US births 4,17720,929
Most in one year 1532,827
Babies in 2025 421,615
Estimated living today 1,60021,000
Median age today 234
Peak year 19222020
Best rank 578th girls94th girls
Rank in 2025 3,577th194th
First recorded 18882008
Girls / boys 4,177 / 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 Evelynes alive today are over 23; half the Everleighs are over 4. That is 19 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 Evelyne Everleigh
England and Wales 2851,108

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: Evelyne and Everleigh.