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Everett vs Everline

American parents have registered 137,101 Everetts since 1880, against 358 Everlines. Everett is still ahead, with 4,366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Everett Everline

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 1899, when Everett had 181 and Everline had 9.

Side by side

  Everett Everline
Total US births 137,101358
Most in one year 4,36618
Babies in 2025 4,366under 5
Estimated living today 83,00090
Median age today 1078
Peak year 20251934
Best rank 77th boys1,834th girls
Rank in 2025 77thunranked
First recorded 18801895
Girls / boys 1,201 / 135,900358 / 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 Everlines alive today are over 78; half the Everetts are over 10. That is 68 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: Everett and Everline.