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Everest vs Everett

American parents have registered 137,101 Everetts since 1880, against 3,986 Everests. Everett is still ahead, with 4,366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Everest Everett

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

Everett has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Everest had 393 and Everett had 3,881.

Side by side

  Everest Everett
Total US births 3,986137,101
Most in one year 4074,366
Babies in 2025 4074,366
Estimated living today 3,90083,000
Median age today 410
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 796th boys77th boys
Rank in 2025 796th77th
First recorded 19141880
Girls / boys 928 / 3,0581,201 / 135,900

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 Everetts alive today are over 10; half the Everests 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 Everest Everett
England and Wales 64247
France 55

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: Everest and Everett.