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Evia vs Evie

American parents have registered 21,949 Evies since 1880, against 1,025 Evias. Evie is still ahead, with 1,151 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Evia against Evie, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Evia Evie

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

Evie 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 1942, when Evia had 14 and Evie had 43.

Side by side

  Evia Evie
Total US births 1,02521,949
Most in one year 311,175
Babies in 2025 111,151
Estimated living today 36017,000
Median age today 148
Peak year 19192023
Best rank 1,393rd girls266th girls
Rank in 2025 8,860th270th
First recorded 18881880
Girls / boys 1,025 / 021,857 / 92

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 Evias alive today are over 14; half the Evies are over 8. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Evia Evie
England and Wales 3854,052

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: Evia and Evie.