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Evelynn vs Everleigh

American parents have registered 20,929 Everleighs since 1880, against 16,064 Evelynns. Everleigh is still ahead, with 1,615 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Evelynn against Everleigh, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Evelynn Everleigh

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 111 years in which either name was published, Evelynn for 103 years and Everleigh for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Evelynn Everleigh
Total US births 16,06420,929
Most in one year 1,0302,827
Babies in 2025 1,0121,615
Estimated living today 16,00021,000
Median age today 74
Peak year 20192020
Best rank 311th girls94th girls
Rank in 2025 301st194th
First recorded 19142008
Girls / boys 16,064 / 020,924 / 5

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 Evelynns alive today are over 7; half the Everleighs are over 4. That is 3 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 Evelynn Everleigh
England and Wales 4211,108

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: Evelynn and Everleigh.