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Everet vs Everett

American parents have registered 137,101 Everetts since 1880, against 752 Everets. Everett is still ahead, with 4,366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Everet 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 1897, when Everet had 6 and Everett had 179.

Side by side

  Everet Everett
Total US births 752137,101
Most in one year 194,366
Babies in 2025 74,366
Estimated living today 34083,000
Median age today 1610
Peak year 19252025
Best rank 1,806th boys77th boys
Rank in 2025 9,714th77th
First recorded 18861880
Girls / boys 0 / 7521,201 / 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 Everets alive today are over 16; half the Everetts are over 10. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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