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Everett vs Everton

American parents have registered 137,101 Everetts since 1880, against 578 Evertons. Everett is still ahead, with 4,366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Everett Everton

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 1988, when Everett had 322 and Everton had 20.

Side by side

  Everett Everton
Total US births 137,101578
Most in one year 4,36620
Babies in 2025 4,3669
Estimated living today 83,000530
Median age today 1026
Peak year 20251988
Best rank 77th boys2,765th boys
Rank in 2025 77th8,243rd
First recorded 18801917
Girls / boys 1,201 / 135,9000 / 578

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 Evertons alive today are over 26; half the Everetts are over 10. That is 16 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 Everett Everton
England and Wales 24713

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: Everett and Everton.