Ever
#1,592 for girls in 2025, 131 births · #1,196 for boys in 2025, 169 births
Given to boys 60.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 205 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,463since 1916
Ever over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,592 | 131 | #1,196 | 169 |
| 2024 | #1,719 | 118 | #1,072 | 203 |
| 2023 | #1,645 | 126 | #1,061 | 205 |
| 2022 | #1,692 | 123 | #1,171 | 174 |
| 2021 | #1,768 | 115 | #1,182 | 166 |
| 2020 | #1,977 | 95 | #1,215 | 155 |
| 2019 | #1,875 | 107 | #1,193 | 160 |
| 2018 | #1,978 | 99 | #1,458 | 119 |
| 2017 | #2,200 | 86 | #1,360 | 131 |
| 2016 | #2,221 | 86 | #1,329 | 134 |
| 2015 | #1,850 | 111 | #1,231 | 148 |
| 2014 | #1,804 | 113 | #1,272 | 140 |
| 2013 | #1,824 | 111 | #1,387 | 121 |
| 2012 | #2,115 | 90 | #1,336 | 127 |
| 2011 | #2,026 | 96 | #1,271 | 135 |
| 2010 | #2,028 | 98 | #1,415 | 117 |
| 2009 | #2,643 | 69 | #1,226 | 146 |
| 2008 | #4,006 | 39 | #1,070 | 175 |
| 2007 | #7,394 | 17 | #1,149 | 155 |
| 2006 | #5,086 | 27 | #1,144 | 148 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #1,112 | 148 |
| 2004 | #5,377 | 23 | #1,206 | 126 |
| 2003 | #5,235 | 23 | #1,233 | 117 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | #1,357 | 97 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #1,287 | 102 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #1,504 | 80 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #1,580 | 69 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #1,741 | 58 |
| 1997 | — | #1,571 | 65 | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #1,705 | 55 |
| 1995 | — | #1,758 | 50 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,664 | 54 | |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #1,638 | 54 |
| 1992 | — | #1,677 | 51 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,725 | 47 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,909 | 40 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,919 | 38 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,437 | 24 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,400 | 23 | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #3,005 | 16 |
| 1985 | — | #2,427 | 21 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,956 | 15 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #3,630 | 11 |
| 1982 | — | #3,692 | 11 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,134 | 9 | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | #3,357 | 12 |
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | — | |
| 1970 | — | — | ||
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 | — | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | #3,535 | 6 |
| 1955 | #3,225 | 13 | — | |
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,701 | 14 | — | |
| 1947 | #2,637 | 15 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,597 | 14 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,916 | 10 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,625 | 12 | — | |
| 1943 | #2,447 | 14 | — | |
| 1942 | #1,760 | 23 | #3,560 | 5 |
| 1941 | #1,610 | 24 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,863 | 6 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,300 | 13 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,181 | 8 | — | |
| 1937 | #1,282 | 32 | — | |
| 1936 | #1,593 | 22 | — | |
| 1935 | #1,550 | 23 | — | |
| 1934 | #2,424 | 12 | — | |
| 1933 | #1,552 | 23 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,634 | 22 | — | |
| 1931 | #1,941 | 17 | — | |
| 1930 | #1,815 | 20 | — | |
| 1929 | #1,766 | 21 | — | |
| 1928 | #1,469 | 29 | — | |
| 1927 | #1,935 | 20 | — | |
| 1926 | #1,883 | 21 | — | |
| 1925 | #1,376 | 34 | — | |
| 1924 | #1,533 | 30 | — | |
| 1923 | #1,672 | 25 | — | |
| 1922 | #1,957 | 20 | — | |
| 1921 | #1,867 | 22 | — | |
| 1920 | #2,172 | 17 | — | |
| 1919 | #1,855 | 20 | — | |
| 1918 | #1,451 | 29 | — | |
| 1917 | #2,316 | 14 | — | |
| 1916 | #1,581 | 23 | #3,897 | 5 |
| 1915 | #1,439 | 25 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,265 | 10 | — | |
| 1913 | #1,601 | 14 | — | |
| 1912 | #1,540 | 13 | — | |
| 1911 | #1,372 | 12 | — | |
| 1910 | #1,521 | 10 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,607 | 8 | — | |
| 1908 | #1,862 | 6 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,289 | 10 | — | |
| 1906 | #1,416 | 8 | — | |
| 1905 | #1,931 | 5 | — | |
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | #1,792 | 5 | — | |
| 1902 | #1,133 | 10 | — | |
| 1901 | #961 | 12 | — | |
| 1900 | #1,231 | 10 | — | |
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | #1,700 | 5 | — | |
| 1897 | #1,263 | 7 | — | |
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | #1,299 | 7 | — | |
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | #901 | 11 | — | |
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | #1,025 | 7 | — | |
| 1888 | #1,276 | 5 | — | |
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
First appearance
1916
The first year at least five boys were named Ever! It came in at #3,897, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1955, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 124 spots since 2024 (#1,072 → #1,196)
- 19 spots since 2020 (#1,215 → #1,196)
- 35 spots since 2015 (#1,231 → #1,196)
Rise & fade · boys
107 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 2023 at #1,061 (205 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 8,344
- Highest: 1 in 8,344 boys born in 2023 were named Ever (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,107 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 29.8% of all boys named Ever (1,332) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1972
- Mostly girls until 1971, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,897 (1916) | #3,897 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,560 (1942) | #3,560 |
| 1950s | 6 | #3,535 (1956) | #3,535 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 33 | #3,357 (1979) | #4,979 |
| 1980s | 173 | #1,919 (1989) | #3,286 |
| 1990s | 543 | #1,571 (1997) | #1,697 |
| 2000s | 1,294 | #1,070 (2008) | #1,229 |
| 2010s | 1,332 | #1,193 (2019) | #1,325 |
| 2020s | 1,072 | #1,061 (2023) | #1,150 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ever in 1901
girls
#961
12 births · 1 in 19,945 girls
Top girls' names in 1901
More about 1901
girls
239,345 girls got a published name in 1901; 1 in 19,945 of them was named Ever, which outranked 50.5% of the 1,943 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).