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Everette vs Everly

American parents have registered 43,412 Everlys since 1880, against 11,584 Everettes. Everly is still ahead, with 2,695 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Everette 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 143 years in which either name was published, Everette for 126 years and Everly for 17 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Everette Everly
Total US births 11,58443,412
Most in one year 2114,791
Babies in 2025 1492,695
Estimated living today 5,80043,000
Median age today 465
Peak year 19192019
Best rank 399th boys42nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,571st91st
First recorded 18801944
Girls / boys 494 / 11,09043,374 / 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 Everettes alive today are over 46; half the Everlys are over 5. That is 41 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: Everette and Everly.