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Evelean vs Everett

American parents have registered 137,101 Everetts since 1880, against 155 Eveleans. Everett is still ahead, with 4,366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Evelean against Everett, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Evelean Everett

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

Everett 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 1944, when Evelean had 9 and Everett had 971.

Side by side

  Evelean Everett
Total US births 155137,101
Most in one year 144,366
Babies in 2025 under 54,366
Estimated living today 5083,000
Median age today 8110
Peak year 19222025
Best rank 2,479th girls77th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked77th
First recorded 19221880
Girls / boys 155 / 01,201 / 135,900

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 Eveleans alive today are over 81; half the Everetts are over 10. That is 71 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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