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Evelynn vs Everton

American parents have registered 16,064 Evelynns since 1880, against 578 Evertons. Evelynn is still ahead, with 1,012 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Evelynn Everton

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 109 years and Everton for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Evelynn Everton
Total US births 16,064578
Most in one year 1,03020
Babies in 2025 1,0129
Estimated living today 16,000530
Median age today 726
Peak year 20191988
Best rank 311th girls2,765th boys
Rank in 2025 301st8,243rd
First recorded 19141917
Girls / boys 16,064 / 00 / 578

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 Evertons alive today are over 26; half the Evelynns are over 7. 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 Evelynn Everton
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 Everton.