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Evelynn vs Everly

American parents have registered 43,412 Everlys since 1880, against 16,064 Evelynns. Everly is still ahead, with 2,695 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Evelynn against Everly, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Evelynn Everly

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 111 years in which either name was published, Evelynn for 98 years and Everly for 13 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Evelynn Everly
Total US births 16,06443,412
Most in one year 1,0304,791
Babies in 2025 1,0122,695
Estimated living today 16,00043,000
Median age today 75
Peak year 20192019
Best rank 311th girls42nd girls
Rank in 2025 301st91st
First recorded 19141944
Girls / boys 16,064 / 043,374 / 38

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 Everlys are over 5. That is 2 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 Evelynn Everly
England and Wales 4212,024

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: Evelynn and Everly.