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Evelynne vs Everleigh

American parents have registered 20,929 Everleighs since 1880, against 1,491 Evelynnes. Everleigh is still ahead, with 1,615 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Evelynne against Everleigh, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Evelynne Everleigh

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 67 years in which either name was published, Evelynne for 50 years and Everleigh for 17 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Evelynne Everleigh
Total US births 1,49120,929
Most in one year 642,827
Babies in 2025 521,615
Estimated living today 1,10021,000
Median age today 104
Peak year 20182020
Best rank 2,677th girls94th girls
Rank in 2025 3,100th194th
First recorded 19082008
Girls / boys 1,491 / 020,924 / 5

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 Evelynnes alive today are over 10; half the Everleighs are over 4. That is 6 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 Evelynne Everleigh
England and Wales 1061,108

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: Evelynne and Everleigh.