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Beverly vs Beverlyn

American parents have registered 383,193 Beverlys since 1880, against 554 Beverlyns. Beverly is still ahead, with 246 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Beverly Beverlyn

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 2008, when Beverly had 168 and Beverlyn had 6.

Side by side

  Beverly Beverlyn
Total US births 383,193554
Most in one year 11,28736
Babies in 2025 246under 5
Estimated living today 221,000430
Median age today 7268
Peak year 19531955
Best rank 34th girls1,733rd girls
Rank in 2025 1,016thunranked
First recorded 18801933
Girls / boys 378,561 / 4,632554 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Beverlys alive today are over 72; half the Beverlyns are over 68. That is 4 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: Beverly and Beverlyn.