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Evelynn vs Everson

American parents have registered 16,064 Evelynns since 1880, against 863 Eversons. Evelynn is still ahead, with 1,012 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Evelynn Everson

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 109 years and Everson for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Evelynn Everson
Total US births 16,064863
Most in one year 1,030103
Babies in 2025 1,01281
Estimated living today 16,000850
Median age today 75
Peak year 20192024
Best rank 311th girls1,641st boys
Rank in 2025 301st1,919th
First recorded 19141920
Girls / boys 16,064 / 028 / 835

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 Eversons 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 Everson
England and Wales 42113

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 Everson.