Even
Even was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,003 among boys’ names; 555 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Even by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Even mean?
Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section
Even is “a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eivind”
Inherited from Old Norse Eyvindr, through a younger Norwegian reduced form, ultimately from Proto-Norse *Auja-winduʀ. The Proto-Norse name is traditionally analysed as containing an element related to *awją (“luck, good fortune”) and the name element *-winduʀ (“victor, victorious lord”), although the precise interpretation of the first element is uncertain. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk Even, Swedish Even and Danish Even (“male given name”).
/ˈeː.ʋən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Even?
#10,003 among boys’ names, 2025
Even fell from #6,438 in 2015 to #10,003 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 4.1 per million.
28 babies in 2008, the peak
Even peaked in 2008, when 28 boys were given it, #3,759 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,003 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,564 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,413 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,408 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,770 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,398 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,133 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,767 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,754 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,378 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,438 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,810 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,675 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,419 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,345 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,028 | 13.0 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,633 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,759 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,865 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,921 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,521 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,650 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,479 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,078 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,781 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,112 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,041 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,834 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,807 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,296 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,238 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,200 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,171 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,910 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,741 | 3.5 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,926 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,251 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,308 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,058 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,571 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,101 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,568 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,163 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,218 | 2.3 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,587 | 3.7 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,094 | 8.3 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,519 | 4.7 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,691 | 6.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Even a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Even has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Even: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Even, and how old are they?
An estimated 521 Americans named Even and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,403 people named Even (119 women and girls, 1,284 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 463 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 299,250 babies since 1880, Even is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 2,614 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Even
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Even and names like it
- Compare Even and EvanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEven peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Even since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Even.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Even alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.