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Eve vs Eveline

American parents have registered 29,510 Eves since 1880, against 3,341 Evelines. Eve is still ahead, with 577 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eve against Eveline, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eve Eveline

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 146 years in which either name was published, Eve for 144 years and Eveline for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Eve Eveline
Total US births 29,5103,341
Most in one year 73276
Babies in 2025 57736
Estimated living today 25,0001,600
Median age today 2126
Peak year 20171922
Best rank 436th girls841st girls
Rank in 2025 519th3,975th
First recorded 18801881
Girls / boys 29,510 / 03,341 / 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 Evelines alive today are over 26; half the Eves are over 21. That is 5 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Eve Eveline
France 17,23517,800
England and Wales 15,079420
Ireland 3,3396
Belgium 653539
Switzerland 249178

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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