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Everlean vs Everly

American parents have registered 43,412 Everlys since 1880, against 513 Everleans. Everly is still ahead, with 2,695 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Everlean 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 78 years in which either name was published, Everlean for 45 years and Everly for 33 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Everlean Everly
Total US births 51343,412
Most in one year 204,791
Babies in 2025 under 52,695
Estimated living today 15043,000
Median age today 795
Peak year 19232019
Best rank 1,944th girls42nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked91st
First recorded 19051944
Girls / boys 513 / 043,374 / 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 Everleans alive today are over 79; half the Everlys are over 5. That is 74 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: Everlean and Everly.