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Everitt vs Everly

American parents have registered 43,412 Everlys since 1880, against 592 Everitts. Everly is still ahead, with 2,695 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Everitt 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 71 years in which either name was published, Everitt for 37 years and Everly for 34 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Everitt Everly
Total US births 59243,412
Most in one year 264,791
Babies in 2025 under 52,695
Estimated living today 37043,000
Median age today 105
Peak year 20222019
Best rank 4,089th boys42nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked91st
First recorded 18991944
Girls / boys 0 / 59243,374 / 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 Everitts alive today are over 10; half the Everlys 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: Everitt and Everly.