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Everly vs Everlyn

American parents have registered 43,412 Everlys since 1880, against 1,438 Everlyns. Everly is still ahead, with 2,695 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Everly 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 91 years in which either name was published, Everlyn for 61 years and Everly for 30 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Everly Everlyn
Total US births 43,4121,438
Most in one year 4,79197
Babies in 2025 2,69595
Estimated living today 43,0001,100
Median age today 56
Peak year 20192023
Best rank 42nd girls2,020th girls
Rank in 2025 91st2,002nd
First recorded 19441908
Girls / boys 43,374 / 381,438 / 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.

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 Everly Everlyn
England and Wales 2,024378

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: Everly and Everlyn.