Meaning not yet researched.
Ever: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 169 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,063 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,063 in 2023; #1,196 in 2025. About 56% of babies named Ever in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,196 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,063.
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Ever: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 169 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,063 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 205 (2023).
In 2025, 169 US boys were named Ever, making it the 1,196th most common boys’ name of the year, down 124 places from #1,072 in 2024. That is 34 fewer than the 203 boys named Ever in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,063, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 205. For comparison, it was #1,234 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 131 US girls were named Ever, making it the 1,599th most common girls’ name of the year, up 125 places from #1,724 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 118 girls named Ever in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #918, reached in 1893. The most girls given the name in a single year was 131, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,855 in 2015 and #4,440 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ever in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 5 babies. In all, 7,375 US babies have been given the name, 39% of them girls and 61% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,329 babies named Ever.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,616 US boys were named Ever; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 205. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,107 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ever ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #740 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Iver (1,789 babies since 1880) and Ivar (1,468 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ivor, Eivor and Evar are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ivor (909), Eivor (56), Evar (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ever in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 6 | #740 | — |
| Texas | 33 | #812 | #663 |
| Virginia | 8 | #826 | #1,038 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #857 | — |
| California | 23 | #971 | #1,059 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,259 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,296 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,329 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,337 | #1,392 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,354 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,525 | #1,421 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 131 | #1,599 | 169 | #1,196 |
| 2024 | 118 | #1,724 | 203 | #1,072 |
| 2023 | 126 | #1,649 | 205 | #1,063 |
| 2022 | 123 | #1,699 | 174 | #1,171 |
| 2021 | 115 | #1,774 | 166 | #1,184 |
| 2020 | 95 | #1,982 | 155 | #1,217 |
| 2019 | 107 | #1,877 | 160 | #1,196 |
| 2018 | 99 | #1,985 | 119 | #1,461 |
| 2017 | 86 | #2,205 | 131 | #1,364 |
| 2016 | 86 | #2,232 | 134 | #1,332 |
| 2015 | 111 | #1,855 | 148 | #1,234 |
| 2014 | 113 | #1,806 | 140 | #1,274 |
| 2013 | 111 | #1,830 | 121 | #1,389 |
| 2012 | 90 | #2,120 | 127 | #1,339 |
| 2011 | 96 | #2,032 | 135 | #1,274 |
| 2010 | 98 | #2,033 | 117 | #1,417 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,654 | 146 | #1,230 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,033 | 175 | #1,072 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,497 | 155 | #1,150 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,135 | 148 | #1,145 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,378 | 148 | #1,114 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,431 | 126 | #1,210 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,289 | 117 | #1,236 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,811 | 97 | #1,364 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,350 | 102 | #1,292 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,205 | 80 | #1,507 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,760 | 69 | #1,585 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,519 | 58 | #1,748 |
| 1997 | — | — | 65 | #1,572 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,324 | 55 | #1,714 |
| 1995 | — | — | 50 | #1,761 |
| 1994 | — | — | 54 | #1,676 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,867 | 54 | #1,641 |
| 1992 | — | — | 51 | #1,681 |
| 1991 | — | — | 47 | #1,727 |
| 1990 | — | — | 40 | #1,912 |
| 1989 | — | — | 38 | #1,927 |
| 1988 | — | — | 24 | #2,464 |
| 1987 | — | — | 23 | #2,417 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,499 | 16 | #3,042 |
| 1985 | — | — | 21 | #2,448 |
| 1984 | — | — | 15 | #2,999 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,780 | 11 | #3,698 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,767 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,588 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,251 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,342 | 12 | #3,423 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,113 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,166 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,138 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,211 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,668 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,049 | — | — |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,326 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,247 | 6 | #3,660 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,271 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,939 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,100 | — | — |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,144 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,440 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,987 | — | — |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,742 | — | — |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,676 | — | — |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,648 | — | — |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,975 | — | — |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,666 | — | — |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,473 | — | — |
| 1942 | 23 | #1,776 | 5 | #3,742 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,622 | — | — |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,014 | — | — |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,333 | — | — |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,270 | — | — |
| 1937 | 32 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 1936 | 22 | #1,607 | — | — |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,470 | — | — |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,973 | — | — |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,779 | — | — |
| 1928 | 29 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,964 | — | — |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 1925 | 34 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 1924 | 30 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,885 | — | — |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,203 | — | — |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,875 | — | — |
| 1918 | 29 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,357 | — | — |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,605 | 5 | #4,122 |
| 1915 | 25 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,321 | — | — |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,561 | — | — |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,937 | — | — |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1901 | 12 | #973 | — | — |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,791 | — | — |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,343 | — | — |
| 1893 | 11 | #918 | — | — |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,353 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).