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Evelynn vs Everitt

American parents have registered 16,064 Evelynns since 1880, against 592 Everitts. Evelynn is still ahead, with 1,012 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Evelynn Everitt

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 112 years in which either name was published, Evelynn for 107 years and Everitt for 5 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Evelynn Everitt
Total US births 16,064592
Most in one year 1,03026
Babies in 2025 1,012under 5
Estimated living today 16,000370
Median age today 710
Peak year 20192022
Best rank 311th girls4,089th boys
Rank in 2025 301stunranked
First recorded 19141899
Girls / boys 16,064 / 00 / 592

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 Everitts alive today are over 10; half the Evelynns are over 7. That is 3 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 Everitt.