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Evelynn vs Evertt

American parents have registered 16,064 Evelynns since 1880, against 958 Evertts. Evelynn is still ahead, with 1,012 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Evelynn Evertt

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 124 years in which either name was published, Evelynn for 85 years and Evertt for 39 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.

9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Evelynn Evertt
Total US births 16,064958
Most in one year 1,03041
Babies in 2025 1,012under 5
Estimated living today 16,000180
Median age today 774
Peak year 20191924
Best rank 311th girls1,117th boys
Rank in 2025 301stunranked
First recorded 19141881
Girls / boys 16,064 / 00 / 958

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 Evertts alive today are over 74; half the Evelynns are over 7. That is 67 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Evelynn and Evertt.