Evening — girls' name
26 babies named Evening in U.S. Social Security records since 2001, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
42% of everyone ever named Evening was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Evening in 2001 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Evening
The Social Security Administration has registered 26 babies named Evening between 2001 and 2023, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Evening currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 6 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Evening performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 11 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Evening shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Evening in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 26 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Evening at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Evening popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–2001
- Peak year (2001)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 23 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
26 total births across 23 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2001 with 6 births in a single year.
Evening by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 11 births that decade — 42% of Evening's all-time total
Evening decade highlights
- Peak decade 11 births
- Runner-up 10 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Evening's strongest decade
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 42% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2001–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.