Everett
A masculine name meaning "brave as a wild boar".
Name Census estimates that about 81,344 living Americans carry the first name Everett. It sits at #85 in the overall ranking, outside the top 50 but still well-represented. It is a predominantly male name (99.2% of registrations). The average person named Everett today is around 28 years old, and the year with the single highest number of Everett births was 2021 (4,334 babies). In terms of living bearers, it sits close to Toni (81,000).
This page is the full Name Census profile for Everett. Below you will find a gender breakdown showing how the name splits between male and female registrations, a year-by-year popularity chart stretching back to 1880, decade-level totals, the top US states for this name, its meaning and etymology, and a set of frequently asked questions with data-backed answers.
For a British comparison, Name Census UK has a UK baby-name profile for Everett with official rankings and popularity over time.
Key insights
- • Although Everett is used almost entirely for boys, the SSA data does show 1,122 girls registered with the name since 1880.
People living today
81K
~ 1 in 4,214 Americans
Peak year
2021
4,334 babies that year
Average age
28
years old
2024 SSA rank
#85
Tracked since 1880
Census
Everett in the 2020 Census
The 2020 Census recorded 58,343 people with the first name Everett, which placed it at #816 in the published first-name tables. This is a snapshot of people who already had the name at the time of the Census.
The SSA sections elsewhere on this page answer a different question: how often parents gave the name to babies over time. The "people living today" figure on this page is different again: it is a current estimate built from SSA birth records and age-based survival rates, so the two numbers are not expected to match exactly.
2020 Census rank
#816
National first-name rank
People counted
58K
58,343 in the published race/origin table
Per 100,000
19.3
People with this name in 2020
Largest reported group
White
78.0% of people with this name
Demographics
Ancestry and ethnicity for Everett
In the 2020 Census race and Hispanic-origin table, the largest reported group for people named Everett is White at 78.0%. The next largest groups are Black (9.4%) and Hispanic (5.3%). These figures describe the people who had the name in 2020, not any inherent property of the name itself.
The bar chart below shows how people with the first name Everett described their own race and ethnicity on the 2020 Census form. The Census Bureau groups responses into six broad categories: White, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, Asian and Pacific Islander, American Indian and Alaska Native, and Two or More Races. When a category has too few respondents for a given name, the Bureau suppresses the figure to protect individual privacy, which is why some names show fewer than six slices.
Percentages are shown so the breakdown is easy to read across every published category. Because the 2020 Census first-name file also includes raw headcounts for each group, Name Census can show those alongside the percentages in the legend and hover tooltip.
Keep in mind that these are self-reported numbers. A first name does not determine a person's race or ethnicity, and the distribution you see here reflects the specific population who happened to carry the name Everett at the time of the 2020 Census, not any inherent property of the name itself.
- White78.0% · 45,488
- Black or African American9.4% · 5,477
- Hispanic or Latino5.3% · 3,102
- Two or more races5.0% · 2,944
- Asian and Pacific Islander1.3% · 775
- American Indian and Alaska Native1.0% · 557
Gender
Gender distribution for Everett
Out of the 132,717 babies given the name Everett since 1880, 99.2% were registered as male. The name sits firmly on the male side of the spectrum, with only a handful of female registrations across the entire dataset.
Everett as a male name
- Ranked #85 in 2024
- 3,947 male births in 2024
- Peak: 2021 (4,250 births)
Everett as a female name
- Ranked #2,607 in 2024
- 67 female births in 2024
- Peak: 2021 (84 births)
2020 Census snapshot
In the 2020 Census sex table, Everett appears almost entirely male. Of the 58,340 people counted with this name, 99.0% were male and only a very small share were female.
Popularity
Everett: popularity over time
The SSA tracks Everett from the 1880s through to the 2020s, spanning 15 decades of birth certificate data. The biggest single decade for the name was the 2010s, with 27,790 total registrations. Although the numbers have come down from the 2010s peak, Everett remains solidly in use and shows no sign of disappearing from maternity wards.
Babies born per year
Decades
Everett by decade
The table below breaks the full SSA timeline into ten-year windows. Each row shows how many male and female babies were given the name Everett during that decade, along with a combined total. This is useful for spotting eras where the name surged or retreated.
Geography
Where Everetts live
The SSA's state-level files cover 51 states and territories. California, Texas, Illinois recorded the most babies named Everett, while Delaware, Wyoming, Hawaii recorded the fewest. The average across all reporting states is about 2,407 registrations each.
Origin
Meaning and history of Everett
The name Everett has its origins in the Old English language, deriving from the words "eofor" meaning "boar" and "reed" meaning "clearing" or "meadow." This combination suggests that the name may have originally referred to a person who lived in a clearing where boars were found or hunted.
In its earliest forms, the name was spelled as "Effridu" or "Efridu" in the 8th century, gradually evolving into "Everard" and "Everett" over the following centuries. The name spread throughout England and parts of Europe during the Middle Ages.
One of the earliest recorded instances of the name Everett dates back to the Domesday Book of 1086, which documented landowners and tenants in England after the Norman Conquest. The entry mentions an individual named "Everardus" who held land in Gloucestershire.
Throughout history, several notable individuals have borne the name Everett. One of the earliest was Everard, a 12th-century Benedictine monk and writer who authored a work entitled "The Life of St. Thomas Becket." Another was Edward Everett (1794-1865), an American statesman, orator, and educator who served as the 20th Governor of Massachusetts and the 15th United States Secretary of State.
In the realm of literature, Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) was an American author and Unitarian minister best known for his short story "The Man Without a Country." Everett Shinn (1876-1953) was a renowned American Realist painter and member of the Ashcan School, known for his depictions of urban life in New York City.
More recently, Everett M. Dirksen (1896-1969) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from Illinois and played a key role in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Everett McGill (born 1945) is an American actor known for his roles in films such as "Silver Bullet," "Twister," and "The People Under the Stairs."
Notable bearers
Famous people named Everett
People
Everett + last name combinations
How many people share a full name with Everett as the first name? Click a combination below to see the estimate, or search any pairing.
Related
Other names starting with E
Other first names starting with E with a similar number of bearers.
FAQ
Everett: questions and answers
How many people in the U.S. are named Everett?
Name Census puts the figure at roughly 81,344 living Americans. We arrive at this by taking every SSA birth registration for Everett going back to 1880 and adjusting each cohort for expected survival using CDC actuarial life tables. The result is an age-weighted living-bearer count, not a raw birth total. That works out to about 1 in 4,214 US residents.
Is Everett a common name?
We classify Everett as "Uncommon". It ranks above 99.4% of all first names in the SSA dataset by living bearers. Across the full history of the data, 132,717 babies have been registered with this name.
When was Everett most popular?
The single biggest year for Everett was 2021, when 4,334 babies received the name. The fact that the average living Everett is about 28 years old gives you a rough sense of which era contributed the most bearers who are still alive today.
How common was Everett in the 2020 Census?
The published 2020 Census first-name tables recorded 58,343 people with the name Everett, or 19.32 per 100,000 residents. That placed it at #816 in the national Census ranking for first names.
Why is the Census count different from the living estimate?
Because they measure different things. The Census figure is a count of people who had the name Everett in 2020. The living estimate aims to answer a current question instead: how many people with the name are alive today, based on SSA birth records and age-based survival rates. Since one number is a 2020 snapshot and the other is a present-day estimate, they are not expected to be identical.
What does the Census say about the gender split for Everett?
In the 2020 Census sex table, Everett appears almost entirely male. Of the 58,340 people counted with this name, 99.0% were male and only a very small share were female. The Census view is a snapshot of people living with the name in 2020, while the SSA section above tracks births across time.
What does the Census say about the background of people named Everett?
In the 2020 Census race and Hispanic-origin table, the largest reported group for people named Everett is White at 78.0%. The next largest groups are Black (9.4%) and Hispanic (5.3%). These figures describe the people who had the name in 2020, not any inherent property of the name itself. The percentages in the chart above come from self-reported race and Hispanic-origin responses in the 2020 Census.
Which group reports the name Everett most often in the Census?
White is the largest reported group for people named Everett in the 2020 Census, accounting for 78.0% (45,488 people in the published table).
Why can the Census sex total and race total differ slightly?
The Census Bureau published separate 2020 tables for sex and for race/Hispanic origin, and the released figures can differ slightly because of privacy protection in the public files. That is why this page treats the gender section and the race/origin section as two related snapshots instead of forcing them into one identical total.
Does every first name have Census demographic data?
No. The public Census first-name release only includes names that met the Bureau's publication rules, so many rarer names in the SSA files have no Census demographic snapshot. When that happens, the SSA trend, gender history, and state sections still appear, but the 2020 Census demographic sections are omitted.
What does the SSA popularity chart show?
The chart tracks births, not the number of people alive with the name today. Each point shows how many babies were given the name Everett in that year. That makes it useful for spotting when the name rose, peaked, or faded.
Is Everett a male name?
Yes, 99.2% of people registered as Everett in the SSA data are male. You can see the full per-sex comparison in the gender distribution section above, which includes the latest year rank, birth count, and peak year for each sex.
Is Everett still being used today?
Yes. The SSA still recorded Everett in 2024, and the page above shows its latest-year rank where available. A name can be well past its peak and still remain in steady use, especially if it built up a large population over earlier decades.
Why can a name have a lot of living bearers even if it is not trendy now?
Because living-bearer counts and current baby-name popularity measure different things. A name like Everett can build up a very large population over many decades, even if fewer parents are choosing it now than they did at its peak.
Where does this data come from?
First-name figures come from the Social Security Administration's national baby name files, which cover every name on a birth certificate from 1880 to 2024. Living-bearer estimates layer in CDC actuarial life tables broken out by sex to account for mortality. The population baseline (342,754,338) is the Census Bureau's latest national estimate. You can read the full calculation on our methodology page.
How common is the name Everett?
For a quick modern take, check how many Americans are named Everett on our sister site HowManyOfMe.org.