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Evelean vs Everly

American parents have registered 43,412 Everlys since 1880, against 155 Eveleans. Everly is still ahead, with 2,695 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Evelean Everly

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 54 years in which either name was published, Everly for 33 years and Evelean for 21 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Evelean Everly
Total US births 15543,412
Most in one year 144,791
Babies in 2025 under 52,695
Estimated living today 5043,000
Median age today 815
Peak year 19222019
Best rank 2,479th girls42nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked91st
First recorded 19221944
Girls / boys 155 / 043,374 / 38

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 Everlys are over 5. That is 76 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 Everly.