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Everett vs Everhett

American parents have registered 137,101 Everetts since 1880, against 668 Everhetts. Everett is still ahead, with 4,366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Everett Everhett

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 Everett had 3,881 and Everhett had 72.

Side by side

  Everett Everhett
Total US births 137,101668
Most in one year 4,36672
Babies in 2025 4,36662
Estimated living today 83,000660
Median age today 105
Peak year 20252023
Best rank 77th boys2,064th boys
Rank in 2025 77th2,258th
First recorded 18802008
Girls / boys 1,201 / 135,9000 / 668

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 Everhetts are over 5. That is 5 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: Everett and Everhett.