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Everest

About 3,986 American babies have been named Everest since 1914, most of them around 2025. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 796th. About 3,900 Everests are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 4.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Everest boys named Everest

Girls and boys called Everest

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 928 girls and 3,058 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 92 to 315.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 20 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
3,986
Estimated living today
3,900
Median age today
4
Peak year
2025
Best rank
796th
Rank in 2025
796th
First recorded
1914
Girls / boys
928 / 3,058

How old the living Everests are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,986 babies given the name since 1914, about 3,900 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 3,600 of them are children and 10 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2021 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Everests

People named Everest with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Everest is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Everest is most concentrated in Utah (5.7×), Colorado (3.0×), Washington (2.6×), California (2.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2025

The most popular boys’ names the year Everest peaked:

All the names of 2025

Everest elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Everest 58 1,984th
England and Wales girls Everest 6 5,687th
France boys Everest 5 6,773rd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Everest among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Everest 8

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

Everest against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.