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Everly vs Everlynn

American parents have registered 43,412 Everlys since 1880, against 702 Everlynns. Everly is still ahead, with 2,695 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Everly Everlynn

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 2025, when Everly had 2,695 and Everlynn had 90.

Side by side

  Everly Everlynn
Total US births 43,412702
Most in one year 4,79198
Babies in 2025 2,69590
Estimated living today 43,000700
Median age today 53
Peak year 20192023
Best rank 42nd girls2,002nd girls
Rank in 2025 91st2,076th
First recorded 19442012
Girls / boys 43,374 / 38702 / 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 Everlys alive today are over 5; half the Everlynns are over 3. 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 Everly Everlynn
England and Wales 2,02444

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 Everlynn.