Ever
Ever reached its high-water mark in 2023 at number 1,061, and has been recorded 7,375 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,196th. About 6,600 Evers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ever boys named Ever
Girls and boys called Ever
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Ever crossed from girls to boys in 1989, and has stayed there for 37 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, and in 2025 it was 56%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 46 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,375
- Estimated living today
- 6,600
- Median age today
- 12
- Peak year
- 2023
- Best rank
- 1,061st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,196th
- First recorded
- 1888
- Girls / boys
- 2,912 / 4,463
How old the living Evers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,375 babies given the name since 1888, about 6,600 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 4,500 of them are children and 180 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Evers
- Éver Banega (born 1988)Argentine association football player
- Ever Palacios (born 1969)Colombian association football player
- Ever Carradine (born 1974)American actress
- Ever Hugo Almeida (born 1948)Paraguayan footballer
- Ever Hernández (born 1958)Salvadoran footballer
People named Ever with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ever is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ever is most concentrated in Texas (3.7×), California (2.9×), Colorado (2.7×), New Mexico (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2023
The most popular boys’ names the year Ever peaked:
Ever elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Ever | 145 | 2,725th |
| England and Wales girls | Ever | 33 | 2,927th |
| France boys | Ever | 15 | 5,724th |
| England and Wales boys | Ever | 11 | 3,848th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ever among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Ever | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Ever lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 268 men called Ever were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Ever | 16 | 0.026 | 2,142 |
| Palmas, Las | Ever | 12 | 0.021 | 3,279 |
| Granada | Ever | 9 | 0.019 | 1,934 |
| Valencia/València | Ever | 25 | 0.018 | 2,496 |
| Barcelona | Ever | 50 | 0.017 | 2,644 |
| Bizkaia | Ever | 9 | 0.016 | 2,307 |
Listed in 13 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 39 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Ever against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.