How rare is the name Everette?

4,891 people in the United States have the first name Everette, about 1 in 61,753. It ranks #3,979 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

EVERETTE

#3,979

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,891
About
1 in 61,753
This common or more
83.4%
Who bears it

Of the 4,891 people named Everette, 61.9% reported their origin as White, 27.7% as Black and 4.2% as two or more races. 93.3% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Everette peaked in 1919, when 211 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1919
Births that year
211
In 2025*
149 ▼29%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 11,584 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Everette by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1920s, when it ranked #957. The largest share of babies named Everette, 23.4%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#1,56662
1890s#1,492115
1900s#1,433170
1910s#1,0201,096
1920s#9571,803
1930s#1,0311,360
1940s#1,2371,270
1950s#1,6601,022
1960s#1,7861,025
1970s#2,403693
1980s#3,328522
1990s#4,857413
2000s#7,141329
2010s#4,006830
2020s#2,748874
Before 19011.7%
Greatest Generation 1901–2723.4%
Silent Generation 1928–4521.4%
Baby boom 1946–6417.9%
Generation X 1965–8010.6%
Millennials 1981–966.6%
Generation Z 1997–125.1%
2013 and later13.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Everette is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Everette has been most common in North Carolina (9.1×), West Virginia (6.2×), and Virginia (5.4×), and least common in New York (0.09×).

6,056 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Everette, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Everette ranks #9,097 of 156,621, with 3,451 people. See Everette as a last name

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