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Beverely vs Beverlee

American parents have registered 2,297 Beverlees since 1880, against 335 Beverelys. Beverlee is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Beverely against Beverlee, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Beverely Beverlee

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 76 years in which either name was published, Beverlee for 74 years and Beverely for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Beverely Beverlee
Total US births 3352,297
Most in one year 1673
Babies in 2025 under 58
Estimated living today 2101,200
Median age today 7372
Peak year 19451930
Best rank 2,149th girls831st girls
Rank in 2025 unranked10,917th
First recorded 19301915
Girls / boys 335 / 02,297 / 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.

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