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Everet vs Everly

American parents have registered 43,412 Everlys since 1880, against 752 Everets. Everly is still ahead, with 2,695 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Everet Everly

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 90 years in which either name was published, Everet for 59 years and Everly for 31 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Everet Everly
Total US births 75243,412
Most in one year 194,791
Babies in 2025 72,695
Estimated living today 34043,000
Median age today 165
Peak year 19252019
Best rank 1,806th boys42nd girls
Rank in 2025 9,714th91st
First recorded 18861944
Girls / boys 0 / 75243,374 / 38

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 Everlys are over 5. That is 11 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 Everly.