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Everleigh vs Everton

American parents have registered 20,929 Everleighs since 1880, against 578 Evertons. Everleigh is still ahead, with 1,615 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Everleigh Everton

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 59 years in which either name was published, Everton for 41 years and Everleigh for 18 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Everleigh Everton
Total US births 20,929578
Most in one year 2,82720
Babies in 2025 1,6159
Estimated living today 21,000530
Median age today 426
Peak year 20201988
Best rank 94th girls2,765th boys
Rank in 2025 194th8,243rd
First recorded 20081917
Girls / boys 20,924 / 50 / 578

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 Evertons alive today are over 26; half the Everleighs are over 4. That is 22 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 Everton
England and Wales 1,10813

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 Everton.