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Evonne vs Evony

American parents have registered 5,057 Evonnes since 1880, against 589 Evonys. Evonne is still ahead, with 10 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Evonne against Evony, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Evonne Evony

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 111 years in which either name was published, Evonne for 100 years and Evony for 11 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Evonne Evony
Total US births 5,057589
Most in one year 12435
Babies in 2025 106
Estimated living today 3,900580
Median age today 5818
Peak year 19572010
Best rank 918th girls4,180th girls
Rank in 2025 9,457th13,208th
First recorded 19111979
Girls / boys 5,057 / 0589 / 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 Evonnes alive today are over 58; half the Evonys are over 18. That is 40 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Evonne and Evony.