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Everlie vs Everly

American parents have registered 43,412 Everlys since 1880, against 873 Everlies. Everly is still ahead, with 2,695 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Everlie 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

Everly has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1944 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Everlie had 8 and Everly had 229.

Side by side

  Everlie Everly
Total US births 87343,412
Most in one year 884,791
Babies in 2025 662,695
Estimated living today 87043,000
Median age today 55
Peak year 20212019
Best rank 2,131st girls42nd girls
Rank in 2025 2,607th91st
First recorded 20101944
Girls / boys 873 / 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.

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 Everlie Everly
England and Wales 1072,024

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: Everlie and Everly.