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Evelyn

US babies given the name, 1880–2025, from SSA records

In 2025, 9,123 girls were named Evelyn: #8 among girls' names that year. The most girls in one year was 14,278, in 1921.

Babies named Evelyn each year

GirlsBoys
Evelyn: babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, girls and boys. Peak 1921 with 14,308.03.8k7.5k11.3k15k18801900192019401960198020002020

Both lines are drawn because the SSA files list Evelyn for girls and for boys; they share one scale, so the smaller line can sit close to the floor. A break in a line is a year under the SSA's 5-birth floor, not a drop to zero.

Babies in 2025Girls 9,123
Boys 8
Rank: girls #8, boys #9,161
Peak year, both sexes192114,308 babies that year (girls + boys)
Peak year by sexGirls 1921: 14,278
Boys 1930: 50
The single year with the most babies of that sex
Highest rank everGirls #8 in 2024
Boys #787 in 1907
Earliest year it reached that rank
All-time recorded births641,662Every listed year, 1880–2025: girls 639,756, boys 1,906
Years listedGirls 146 of 146
Boys 118 of 146
Years with 5 or more babies of that sex

Every year: babies and rank

YearGirlsRankBoysRank
20259,123#88#9,161
20249,146#86#11,348
20239,121#98#9,177
20229,332#96#11,293
20219,495#910#7,774
20209,517#97#9,876
201910,443#106#11,196
201810,433#1013#6,458
201710,748#911#7,241
201610,116#128#9,103
20159,377#1517#5,362
20148,753#165#12,653
20137,670#2014#6,010
20126,880#2713#6,424
20116,709#248#9,003
20105,843#398#9,054
20095,584#40under 5 or none—
20085,101#5410#7,875
20075,054#556#11,378
20064,751#6510#7,601
20054,490#718#8,531
20043,763#8411#6,682
20033,701#8812#5,988
20023,372#987#8,743
20012,691#1266#9,652
20002,223#150under 5 or none—
19991,964#161under 5 or none—
19981,707#178under 5 or none—
19971,572#191under 5 or none—
19961,596#1889#6,151
19951,508#1969#6,073
19941,452#20110#5,588
19931,347#2116#7,957
19921,411#20321#3,143
19911,269#2229#5,657
19901,302#22014#4,040
19891,171#23519#3,129
19881,124#23515#3,408
19871,011#25316#3,106
19861,081#2409#4,588
19851,132#22913#3,471
19841,050#23911#3,779
19831,139#22213#3,296
19821,377#19717#2,742
19811,032#24310#3,935
1980861#28810#3,931
1979851#287under 5 or none—
1978820#283under 5 or none—
1977832#289under 5 or none—
1976819#2808#4,131
1975868#2805#5,738
1974942#2709#3,650
19731,015#2499#3,530
19721,060#2549#3,429
19711,301#2318#3,757
19701,466#2169#3,359
19691,452#2159#3,143
19681,645#1926#3,845
19671,723#1849#2,839
19661,872#1769#2,847
19652,003#1766#3,661
19642,380#16213#2,349
19632,567#15914#2,234
19622,780#1538#3,133
19612,941#14618#1,970
19603,219#1379#2,939
19593,265#13420#1,821
19583,275#13416#2,051
19573,640#12511#2,534
19563,748#12018#1,903
19553,805#11218#1,864
19543,952#10913#2,240
19534,064#9412#2,327
19524,155#9013#2,185
19514,232#8814#2,081
19504,275#8610#2,485
19494,529#8016#1,889
19484,840#7414#2,055
19475,243#7212#2,283
19464,890#6521#1,572
19454,377#5713#1,957
19444,516#5716#1,764
19434,912#5315#1,939
19424,940#5319#1,647
19414,928#5023#1,427
19404,982#4824#1,378
19395,332#4040#1,010
19385,688#3823#1,406
19375,760#3634#1,130
19366,108#3431#1,190
19356,560#3131#1,210
19346,983#2935#1,122
19336,947#3023#1,421
19327,958#2341#1,042
19318,492#2439#1,081
19309,536#1950#961
19299,886#1939#1,118
192810,533#1741#1,100
192711,495#1537#1,183
192611,780#1340#1,131
192512,505#1236#1,189
192413,358#1239#1,161
192313,173#1238#1,162
192213,320#1331#1,317
192114,278#1230#1,372
192013,838#1224#1,559
191913,321#1127#1,395
191813,493#1131#1,266
191712,532#1129#1,277
191611,889#1126#1,351
191511,595#1024#1,384
19148,506#1119#1,407
19136,683#1219#1,182
19125,620#1318#1,110
19114,076#1611#1,067
19103,777#1714#833
19093,157#188#1,109
19082,857#209#973
19073,035#1812#787
19062,077#3210#813
19051,661#4610#805
19041,372#507#1,000
19031,211#548#864
19021,151#595#1,191
1901966#625#1,107
19001,116#707#1,083
1899802#74under 5 or none—
1898836#76under 5 or none—
1897690#80under 5 or none—
1896646#84under 5 or none—
1895630#87under 5 or none—
1894491#99under 5 or none—
1893457#104under 5 or none—
1892418#106under 5 or none—
1891362#109under 5 or none—
1890316#125under 5 or none—
1889320#118under 5 or none—
1888237#139under 5 or none—
1887194#135under 5 or none—
1886203#135under 5 or none—
1885191#131under 5 or none—
1884170#134under 5 or none—
1883139#141under 5 or none—
1882125#142under 5 or none—
1881116#135under 5 or none—
1880122#133under 5 or none—

Rank among all names of that sex in that year, by the SSA's rule. “under 5 or none” is a year the SSA file does not list: fewer than 5 babies of that sex, possibly none.

Rank in each decade

DecadeGirlsBoys
2020–2025 (so far)#9#9,173
2010s#13#7,480
2000s#80#8,828
1990s#195#6,432
1980s#238#3,418
1970s#262#4,583
1960s#168#2,687
1950s#112#2,118
1940s#61#1,742
1930s#30#1,138
1920s#12#1,206
1910s#12#1,260
1900s#38#909
1890s#90under 5 or none every year
1880s#136under 5 or none every year

Rank among all names of that sex by births summed over the decade.

Years under the floor

Girls: listed in every year, 1880–2025.

Boys: under 5 or none in 1880–1899, 1977–1979, 1997–2000, 2009.

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About this page

Why this name has its own page

These pages are the 9 girls' and 9 boys' names given to the most babies in 2025, the newest year in the SSA file this site is built from. The build picks them from that year's file each time it runs — most births first, ties in alphabetical order, the SSA's own ranking rule — so a new SSA year can change the list. All 18 are on the list of name pages; any other name is on the front page lookup.

Where every number comes from

US Social Security Administration, "Beyond the Top 1000 Names" national data (names.zip): one text file per year of birth, 1880 to 2025, each line a name, a sex and a number of babies. The SSA address is www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/names.zip; ssa.gov refuses requests from this site's build server, so the file was taken from the Internet Archive's copy of that address, captured 2026-09-28 (14:33 UTC) and fetched 2026-09-30: web.archive.org/web/20260928143357id_/www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/names.zip. SHA-256 cd78e975ed7bb358e018dd62fbe14ced89295e9581c49172ca4eedcb011b3724.

The SSA lists a name for a sex in a year only when at least 5 babies got it, so every total here adds up the listed years only and is a floor on the true number. The file covers people with a Social Security number, so early decades count people who applied for one later in life. Spellings are separate names: this page counts “Evelyn” exactly as spelled.