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Everly vs Evern

American parents have registered 43,412 Everlys since 1880, against 53 Everns. Everly is still ahead, with 2,695 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Everly 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 43 years in which either name was published, Everly for 34 years and Evern for 9 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Everly Evern
Total US births 43,41253
Most in one year 4,7919
Babies in 2025 2,695under 5
Estimated living today 43,00017
Median age today 577
Peak year 20191922
Best rank 42nd girls3,014th boys
Rank in 2025 91stunranked
First recorded 19441922
Girls / boys 43,374 / 3817 / 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 Everlys are over 5. That is 72 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: Everly and Evern.