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Everly vs Everson

American parents have registered 43,412 Everlys since 1880, against 863 Eversons. Everly is still ahead, with 2,695 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Everly Everson

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 41 years in which either name was published, Everly for 29 years and Everson for 12 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Everly Everson
Total US births 43,412863
Most in one year 4,791103
Babies in 2025 2,69581
Estimated living today 43,000850
Median age today 55
Peak year 20192024
Best rank 42nd girls1,641st boys
Rank in 2025 91st1,919th
First recorded 19441920
Girls / boys 43,374 / 3828 / 835

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 Everson
England and Wales 2,02413
France 14020

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 Everson.