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Everett vs Everlena

American parents have registered 137,101 Everetts since 1880, against 1,140 Everlenas. Everett is still ahead, with 4,366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Everett Everlena

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 Everett had 179 and Everlena had 10.

Side by side

  Everett Everlena
Total US births 137,1011,140
Most in one year 4,36636
Babies in 2025 4,366under 5
Estimated living today 83,000270
Median age today 1079
Peak year 20251922
Best rank 77th boys1,309th girls
Rank in 2025 77thunranked
First recorded 18801886
Girls / boys 1,201 / 135,9001,140 / 0

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 Everlenas alive today are over 79; half the Everetts are over 10. That is 69 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.

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