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Evolet vs Evony

American parents have registered 1,607 Evolets since 1880, against 589 Evonys. Evolet is still ahead, with 65 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Evolet against Evony, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Evolet Evony

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 45 years in which either name was published, Evony for 27 years and Evolet for 18 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Evolet Evony
Total US births 1,607589
Most in one year 15235
Babies in 2025 656
Estimated living today 1,600580
Median age today 1118
Peak year 20142010
Best rank 1,471st girls4,180th girls
Rank in 2025 2,645th13,208th
First recorded 20081979
Girls / boys 1,607 / 0589 / 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 Evonys alive today are over 18; half the Evolets are over 11. That is 7 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 Evolet Evony
England and Wales 2217

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: Evolet and Evony.