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Evelynn vs Everhett

American parents have registered 16,064 Evelynns since 1880, against 668 Everhetts. Evelynn is still ahead, with 1,012 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Evelynn against Everhett, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Evelynn Everhett

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

Evelynn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Evelynn had 976 and Everhett had 72.

Side by side

  Evelynn Everhett
Total US births 16,064668
Most in one year 1,03072
Babies in 2025 1,01262
Estimated living today 16,000660
Median age today 75
Peak year 20192023
Best rank 311th girls2,064th boys
Rank in 2025 301st2,258th
First recorded 19142008
Girls / boys 16,064 / 00 / 668

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 Evelynns alive today are over 7; half the Everhetts are over 5. That is 2 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: Evelynn and Everhett.