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Beverely vs Beverly

American parents have registered 383,193 Beverlys since 1880, against 335 Beverelys. Beverly is still ahead, with 246 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Beverely against Beverly, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Beverely Beverly

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

Beverly has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1968, when Beverely had 8 and Beverly had 2,608.

Side by side

  Beverely Beverly
Total US births 335383,193
Most in one year 1611,287
Babies in 2025 under 5246
Estimated living today 210221,000
Median age today 7372
Peak year 19451953
Best rank 2,149th girls34th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,016th
First recorded 19301880
Girls / boys 335 / 0378,561 / 4,632

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 Beverly.