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Everleigh vs Everlyn

American parents have registered 20,929 Everleighs since 1880, against 1,438 Everlyns. Everleigh is still ahead, with 1,615 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Everleigh against Everlyn, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Everleigh Everlyn

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 84 years in which either name was published, Everlyn for 66 years and Everleigh for 18 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Everleigh Everlyn
Total US births 20,9291,438
Most in one year 2,82797
Babies in 2025 1,61595
Estimated living today 21,0001,100
Median age today 46
Peak year 20202023
Best rank 94th girls2,020th girls
Rank in 2025 194th2,002nd
First recorded 20081908
Girls / boys 20,924 / 51,438 / 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 Everlyns alive today are over 6; half the Everleighs are over 4. That is 2 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 Everleigh Everlyn
England and Wales 1,108378

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: Everleigh and Everlyn.