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Beverlee vs Beverly

American parents have registered 383,193 Beverlys since 1880, against 2,297 Beverlees. Beverly is still ahead, with 246 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Beverlee 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 2017, when Beverlee had 6 and Beverly had 161.

Side by side

  Beverlee Beverly
Total US births 2,297383,193
Most in one year 7311,287
Babies in 2025 8246
Estimated living today 1,200221,000
Median age today 7272
Peak year 19301953
Best rank 831st girls34th girls
Rank in 2025 10,917th1,016th
First recorded 19151880
Girls / boys 2,297 / 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.

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: Beverlee and Beverly.