In 2025, 315 US boys were named Everest, making it the 796th most common boys’ name of the year, up 47 places from #843 in 2024. That is 26 more than the 289 boys named Everest in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #796, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 315. For comparison, it was #1,497 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 92 US girls were named Everest, making it the 2,053rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 218 places from #2,271 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 82 girls named Everest in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,579, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 133. For comparison, it was #4,761 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Everest in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 3,986 US babies have been given the name, 23% of them girls and 77% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,255 babies named Everest.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,312 US boys were named Everest; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 315. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,422 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Everest ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #159 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.