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Everly vs Evey

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

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Everly Evey

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 35 years in which either name was published, Everly for 30 years and Evey for 5 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Everly Evey
Total US births 43,412873
Most in one year 4,79163
Babies in 2025 2,69515
Estimated living today 43,000870
Median age today 512
Peak year 20192007
Best rank 42nd girls2,858th girls
Rank in 2025 91st7,133rd
First recorded 19441995
Girls / boys 43,374 / 38873 / 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 Eveys alive today are over 12; half the Everlys are over 5. That is 7 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 Evey
England and Wales 2,02498
France 1405

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 Evey.