Ever — #1070 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ever

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,294 babies named Ever between 1916 and 2024, spanning 109 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ever currently holds the #1070 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 205 babies received it in a single year. Ever is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,777 additional births since 1888.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ever performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,332 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Ever shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 884 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Ever in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ever 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 4,294 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.