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Everleigh vs Evern

American parents have registered 20,929 Everleighs since 1880, against 53 Everns. Everleigh is still ahead, with 1,615 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Everleigh Evern

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 27 years in which either name was published, Everleigh for 18 years and Evern for 9 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Everleigh Evern
Total US births 20,92953
Most in one year 2,8279
Babies in 2025 1,615under 5
Estimated living today 21,00017
Median age today 477
Peak year 20201922
Best rank 94th girls3,014th boys
Rank in 2025 194thunranked
First recorded 20081922
Girls / boys 20,924 / 517 / 36

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 Everns alive today are over 77; half the Everleighs are over 4. That is 73 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: Everleigh and Evern.