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Beverlee vs Bevin

American parents have registered 2,297 Beverlees since 1880, against 1,173 Bevins. Beverlee is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Beverlee Bevin

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 104 years in which either name was published, Beverlee for 52 years and Bevin for 52 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Beverlee Bevin
Total US births 2,2971,173
Most in one year 7364
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 1,2001,100
Median age today 7241
Peak year 19301978
Best rank 831st girls1,765th girls
Rank in 2025 10,917thunranked
First recorded 19151950
Girls / boys 2,297 / 01,037 / 136

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 Beverlees alive today are over 72; half the Bevins are over 41. That is 31 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: Beverlee and Bevin.