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Evelin vs Everett

American parents have registered 137,101 Everetts since 1880, against 7,430 Evelins. Everett is still ahead, with 4,366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Evelin 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 2002, when Evelin had 316 and Everett had 354.

Side by side

  Evelin Everett
Total US births 7,430137,101
Most in one year 4234,366
Babies in 2025 864,366
Estimated living today 7,20083,000
Median age today 2010
Peak year 20062025
Best rank 673rd girls77th boys
Rank in 2025 2,153rd77th
First recorded 19131880
Girls / boys 7,425 / 51,201 / 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 Evelins alive today are over 20; half the Everetts are over 10. That is 10 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 Evelin Everett
England and Wales 318247
France 805
Scotland 33

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: Evelin and Everett.